hakuna
/ha.'ku.na/
The verdict
“hakuna” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #62,216 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #62,216
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - não há, não existe, tempo presente do verbo kuwa
| 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) |
Where “hakuna” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for hakuna is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ha.'ku.na/. Corpus data places it at rank #62,216 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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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Using “hakuna”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is H-A-K-U-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ha.'ku.na/ (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.