dorn
/ˈdɔrn/
The verdict
“dorn” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,805 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,805
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mão
Corpus desk
Index PT-dorn · dorn · Portuguese
dorn · rank #62,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,805
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH distópico
Nearest frequency peer: distópico (-5 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 “dorn”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desbravador
desbravador
37,222 corpus weight
- desbravar
desbravar
37,221 corpus weight
- distópico
distópico
37,201 corpus weight
- dorn
dorn
37,196 corpus weight
- encéfalo
encéfalo
37,180 corpus weight
- enroscar
enroscar
37,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “dorn” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dorn |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɔrn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “dorn” em português
Rare enough to double-check
dorn is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,805 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɔrn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mão".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dorn, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 dorn, spelled D-O-R-N.
Definition
- 1mão
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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