hol
The verdict
“hol” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,528 among 409 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,528
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o mesmo que saguão
Corpus desk
Index PT-hol · hol · Portuguese
hol · rank #86,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,528
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH imperícia
Nearest frequency peer: imperícia (+9 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 “hol”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Gabon
Gabon
13,511 corpus weight
- gemada
gemada
13,506 corpus weight
- Guianas
Guianas
13,495 corpus weight
- hol
hol
13,473 corpus weight
- imperícia
imperícia
13,464 corpus weight
- indubitável
indubitável
13,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “hol” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hol |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “hol” em português
Rare enough to double-check
hol is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,528 among 409 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "o mesmo que saguão".
No misspelling variants are generated for hol in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 hol, spelled H-O-L.
Definition
- 1o mesmo que saguão
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nenhuma novidade até aqui, o inusitado acontece quando o olhar narrativo atravessa as paredes do quarto e surpreende uma outra cena, colhida em outra noite, o encontro escondido de Elza e Tanaka no hol.
This word in other languages
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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