doge
The verdict
“doge” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #68,760 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #68,760
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - magistrado supremo nas antigas repúblicas de Gênova e Veneza
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doge |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “doge” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for doge is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #68,760 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "magistrado supremo nas antigas repúblicas de Gênova e Veneza".
No generated misspelling entries exist for doge in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 doge, spelled D-O-G-E.
Definition
- 1magistrado supremo nas antigas repúblicas de Gênova e Veneza
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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Using “doge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-O-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.