blew
/bl(j)uː/
The verdict
“blew” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,487 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,487
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - particípio passado do verbo blow
Corpus desk
Index PT-blew · blew · Portuguese
blew · rank #98,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,487
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bouça
Nearest frequency peer: bouça (+10 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 “blew”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ascetismo
ascetismo
1,567 corpus weight
- audit
audit
1,556 corpus weight
- bananinha
bananinha
1,540 corpus weight
- blew
blew
1,514 corpus weight
- bouça
bouça
1,504 corpus weight
- cardinalício
cardinalício
1,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “blew” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blew |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bl(j)uː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “blew” em português
Rare enough to double-check
blew is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,487 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /bl(j)uː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "particípio passado do verbo blow".
No generated misspelling entries exist for blew in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is blew, spelled B-L-E-W.
Definition
- 1particípio passado do verbo blow
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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