hakuna
/ha.'ku.na/
The verdict
“hakuna” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,216 among 409 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,216
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - não há, não existe, tempo presente do verbo kuwa
Corpus desk
Index PT-hakuna · hakuna · Portuguese
hakuna · rank #62,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,216
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH guichê
Nearest frequency peer: guichê (-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 “hakuna”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- gerônimo
gerônimo
37,797 corpus weight
- guichê
guichê
37,786 corpus weight
- hakuna
hakuna
37,785 corpus weight
- Hummer
Hummer
37,773 corpus weight
- inaudível
inaudível
37,765 corpus weight
- incólume
incólume
37,764 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “hakuna” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hakuna |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ha.'ku.na/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “hakuna” em português
Rare enough to double-check
hakuna is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,216 among 409 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ha.'ku.na/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hakuna, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 hakuna, spelled H-A-K-U-N-A.
Definition
- 1não há, não existe, tempo presente do verbo kuwa
- 2não há, não existem, tempo presente do verbo kuwa
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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