gaijin
The verdict
“gaijin” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,030 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,030
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aquele que não é japonês
Corpus desk
Index PT-gaijin · gaijin · Portuguese
gaijin · rank #91,030 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,030
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gorgulho
Nearest frequency peer: gorgulho (+15 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 “gaijin”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Eurydice
Eurydice
9,014 corpus weight
- fervo
fervo
8,992 corpus weight
- gaijin
gaijin
8,971 corpus weight
- gorgulho
gorgulho
8,956 corpus weight
- gravíssimas
gravíssimas
8,952 corpus weight
- Greice
Greice
8,950 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gaijin” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaijin |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gaijin” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gaijin is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,030 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aquele que não é japonês".
No misspelling variants are generated for gaijin in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is gaijin, spelled G-A-I-J-I-N.
Definition
- 1aquele que não é japonês
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gaijin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Memórias De Saitama
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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