het
The verdict
“het” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,162 among 409 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,162
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forma presente do indicativo do verbo hê:
Corpus desk
Index PT-het · het · Portuguese
het · rank #56,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,162
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH hepático
Nearest frequency peer: hepático (-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 “het”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- glicerina
glicerina
43,856 corpus weight
- hepático
hepático
43,840 corpus weight
- het
het
43,839 corpus weight
- hound
hound
43,835 corpus weight
- ibi
ibi
43,831 corpus weight
- inação
inação
43,822 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “het” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | het |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “het” em português
Rare enough to double-check
het is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,162 among 409 “H” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "forma presente do indicativo do verbo hê:".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for het, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 het, spelled H-E-T.
Definition
- 1forma presente do indicativo do verbo hê:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how het appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hy het 'n huis gekoop.
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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