Iceland
/ˈaɪs.lənd/
The verdict
“Iceland” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #87,404 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #87,404
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Islândia
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Iceland |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaɪs.lənd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Iceland” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Iceland is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈaɪs.lənd/. Corpus data places it at rank #87,404 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Islândia".
Iceland has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Iceland, spelled I-C-E-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Islândia
Synonyms
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 “Iceland”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-C-E-L-A-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈaɪs.lənd/ (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.