beware
/ˌbəˈwɛəɹ/
The verdict
“beware” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,511 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,511
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - precaver-se; prestar atenção
Corpus desk
Index PT-beware · beware · Portuguese
beware · rank #94,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,511
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH ballerina
Nearest frequency peer: ballerina (-16 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “beware”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- autossusten…
autossustentável
5,520 corpus weight
- bairrismo
bairrismo
5,509 corpus weight
- ballerina
ballerina
5,506 corpus weight
- beware
beware
5,490 corpus weight
- brejão
brejão
5,471 corpus weight
- cabriolet
cabriolet
5,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “beware” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beware |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˌbəˈwɛəɹ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “beware” em português
Rare enough to double-check
beware is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,511 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˌbəˈwɛəɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "precaver-se; prestar atenção".
Zero misspellings are on record for beware in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is beware, spelled B-E-W-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1precaver-se; prestar atenção
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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