een
/ən/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“een” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,492 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as an article. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,492
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a, o; colocado antes de um substantivo singular indicando generalidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-een · een · Portuguese
een · rank #63,492 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,492
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH efervescente
Nearest frequency peer: efervescente (+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 “een”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- detetar
detetar
36,523 corpus weight
- dramatizar
dramatizar
36,514 corpus weight
- een
een
36,509 corpus weight
- efervescente
efervescente
36,508 corpus weight
- empacotar
empacotar
36,505 corpus weight
- emu
emu
36,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “een” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | een |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | /ən/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “een” em português
Rare enough to double-check
een is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,492 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anarticle, transcribed /ən/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a, o; colocado antes de um substantivo singular indicando generalidade".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for een, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is een, spelled E-E-N.
Definition
- 1a, o; colocado antes de um substantivo singular indicando generalidade
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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