elles
/ɛl/
The verdict
“elles” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,050 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,050
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elas, pronome pessoal feminino da terçeira pessoa do plural.
Corpus desk
Index PT-elles · elles · Portuguese
elles · rank #51,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,050
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH efêmero
Nearest frequency peer: efêmero (-2 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 “elles”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desordenado
desordenado
48,971 corpus weight
- efêmero
efêmero
48,953 corpus weight
- elles
elles
48,951 corpus weight
- estiva
estiva
48,933 corpus weight
- estocar
estocar
48,932 corpus weight
- etílico
etílico
48,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “elles” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elles |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ɛl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “elles” em português
Rare enough to double-check
elles is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,050 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /ɛl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "elas, pronome pessoal feminino da terçeira pessoa do plural.".
No misspelling variants are generated for elles in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is elles, spelled E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1elas, pronome pessoal feminino da terçeira pessoa do plural.
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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