Cameroon
/kæməˈɹuːn/
The verdict
“Cameroon” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,890 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,890
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Camarões
Corpus desk
Index PT-cameroon · Cameroon · Portuguese
Cameroon · rank #88,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,890
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH borralheira
Nearest frequency peer: borralheira (-18 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 “Cameroon”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- baldeação
baldeação
11,152 corpus weight
- borralheira
borralheira
11,129 corpus weight
- Cameroon
Cameroon
11,111 corpus weight
- choupo
choupo
11,080 corpus weight
- collet
collet
11,066 corpus weight
- concertado
concertado
11,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Cameroon” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cameroon |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kæməˈɹuːn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Cameroon” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Cameroon is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,890 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kæməˈɹuːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Camarões".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cameroon in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is Cameroon, spelled C-A-M-E-R-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Camarões
Synonyms
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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