ewe
/jwu/, /ju:/
The verdict
“ewe” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,688 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,688
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ovelha, fêmea do carneiro
Corpus desk
Index PT-ewe · ewe · Portuguese
ewe · rank #84,688 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,688
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH estragão
Nearest frequency peer: estragão (-7 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 “ewe”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- estragão
estragão
15,320 corpus weight
- ewe
ewe
15,313 corpus weight
- felicitação
felicitação
15,305 corpus weight
- fiscalidade
fiscalidade
15,295 corpus weight
- fogareiro
fogareiro
15,289 corpus weight
- fotomontagem
fotomontagem
15,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ewe” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ewe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /jwu/, /ju:/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #84,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ewe” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ewe is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,688 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /jwu/, /ju:/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ovelha, fêmea do carneiro".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ewe in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ewe, spelled E-W-E.
Definition
- 1ovelha, fêmea do carneiro
Antonyms
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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