clã
The verdict
“clã” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #8,588 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,588
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: grupo de famílias que se consideram descendentes dos mesmos ancestrais
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clã |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈklɐ̃/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clã” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for clã is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈklɐ̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,588 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "grupo de famílias que se consideram descendentes dos mesmos ancestrais".
No misspelling variants are generated for clã in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "cu", "com", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is clã, spelled C-L-Ã, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1grupo de famílias que se consideram descendentes dos mesmos ancestrais
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #8,588 in Portuguese
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Using “clã”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-L-Ã — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈklɐ̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “co” — see the side-by-side comparison. clã vs co
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: