cay
/ˈkeɪ/, /ˈkiː/
The verdict
“cay” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,776 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,776
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ilha baixa e pequena formada principalmente por corais e areia
Corpus desk
Index PT-cay · cay · Portuguese
cay · rank #77,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,776
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH categórico
Nearest frequency peer: categórico (-1 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 “cay”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- camélia
camélia
22,236 corpus weight
- captor
captor
22,232 corpus weight
- caramuru
caramuru
22,230 corpus weight
- categórico
categórico
22,226 corpus weight
- cay
cay
22,225 corpus weight
- celibatário
celibatário
22,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cay” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cay |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkeɪ/, /ˈkiː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #77,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cay” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cay is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,776 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkeɪ/, /ˈkiː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ilha baixa e pequena formada principalmente por corais e areia".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cay in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is cay, spelled C-A-Y.
Definition
- 1ilha baixa e pequena formada principalmente por corais e areia
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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