eit
The verdict
“eit” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,834 among 2,493 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,834
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,493
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - velha, anciã, mulher idosa:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eit |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #91,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eit” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
eit is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,834 among 2,493 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
eit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is eit, spelled E-I-T.
Definition
- 1velha, anciã, mulher idosa:
- 2mulher, indivíduo do sexo feminino
Synonyms
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 “eit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-I-T - 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.