haikai
/aj.ˈkaj/
The verdict
“haikai” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #87,379 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #87,379
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - haicai
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haikai |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aj.ˈkaj/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “haikai” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for haikai is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aj.ˈkaj/. Corpus data places it at rank #87,379 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "haicai".
haikai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 haikai, spelled H-A-I-K-A-I.
Definition
- 1haicai
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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Using “haikai”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is H-A-I-K-A-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aj.ˈkaj/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.