cognome
/ku.ɡˈno.mɨ/
The verdict
“cognome” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #96,527 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,527
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome de família após o prenome
Corpus desk
Index PT-cognome · cognome · Portuguese
cognome · rank #96,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,527
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cacofonia
Nearest frequency peer: cacofonia (-40 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 “cognome”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bombacha
bombacha
3,529 corpus weight
- brique
brique
3,522 corpus weight
- bromo
bromo
3,521 corpus weight
- cacofonia
cacofonia
3,514 corpus weight
- cognome
cognome
3,474 corpus weight
- cumbuca
cumbuca
3,432 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cognome” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognome |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ku.ɡˈno.mɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cognome” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cognome is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #96,527 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ku.ɡˈno.mɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
cognome doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cognome, spelled C-O-G-N-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1nome de família após o prenome
- 2redutivo, diminutivo ou aumentativo relacionado ao prenome
- 3acréscimo ao nome indicativo de qualidade
This word in other languages
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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