harsh
/hɑɹʃ/
The verdict
“harsh” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #85,646 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #85,646
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - áspero, inóspito
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harsh |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /hɑɹʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “harsh” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for harsh is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /hɑɹʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #85,646 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "áspero, inóspito".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for harsh, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is harsh, spelled H-A-R-S-H.
Definition
- 1áspero, inóspito
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 “harsh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is H-A-R-S-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /hɑɹʃ/ (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.