emu
/e.'mu/
The verdict
“emu” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,499 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,499
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - certa ave australiana, de nome científico Dromaius novaehollandiae
Corpus desk
Index PT-emu · emu · Portuguese
emu · rank #63,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,499
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH empacotar
Nearest frequency peer: empacotar (-3 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 “emu”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- 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
- esparguete
esparguete
36,488 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “emu” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /e.'mu/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “emu” em português
Rare enough to double-check
emu is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,499 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /e.'mu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "certa ave australiana, de nome científico Dromaius novaehollandiae".
No misspelling variants are generated for emu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is emu, spelled E-M-U.
Definition
- 1certa ave australiana, de nome científico Dromaius novaehollandiae
This word in other languages
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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