gan
/gan/
The verdict
“gan” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,525 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,525
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ganso
Corpus desk
Index PT-gan · gan · Portuguese
gan · rank #50,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,525
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH galé
Nearest frequency peer: galé (-1 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 “gan”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- finds
finds
49,490 corpus weight
- galé
galé
49,477 corpus weight
- gan
gan
49,476 corpus weight
- germe
germe
49,473 corpus weight
- Giacomo
Giacomo
49,471 corpus weight
- gives
gives
49,470 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gan” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gan |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /gan/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gan” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gan is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,525 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /gan/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ganso".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gan, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is gan, spelled G-A-N.
Definition
- 1ganso
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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