duce
/'du.ʧe/.
The verdict
“duce” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,145 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,145
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - duque
Corpus desk
Index PT-duce · duce · Portuguese
duce · rank #66,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,145
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH ducto
Nearest frequency peer: ducto (+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 “duce”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- deteção
deteção
33,872 corpus weight
- disforme
disforme
33,864 corpus weight
- duce
duce
33,856 corpus weight
- ducto
ducto
33,855 corpus weight
- eclodir
eclodir
33,852 corpus weight
- engomar
engomar
33,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “duce” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duce |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'du.ʧe/. |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “duce” em português
Rare enough to double-check
duce is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,145 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /'du.ʧe/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "duque".
duce has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 duce, spelled D-U-C-E.
Definition
- 1duque
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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