irony
/ˈaɪə.ɹən.i/
The verdict
“irony” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,851 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,851
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ironia
Corpus desk
Index PT-irony · irony · Portuguese
irony · rank #97,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,851
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH intrusivo
Nearest frequency peer: intrusivo (-3 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 “irony”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- indistinto
indistinto
2,166 corpus weight
- inferninho
inferninho
2,163 corpus weight
- inocular
inocular
2,161 corpus weight
- intrusivo
intrusivo
2,153 corpus weight
- irony
irony
2,150 corpus weight
- kak
kak
2,133 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “irony” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irony |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaɪə.ɹən.i/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “irony” em português
Rare enough to double-check
irony is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,851 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈaɪə.ɹən.i/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ironia".
irony has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. 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.
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 irony, spelled I-R-O-N-Y.
Definition
- 1ironia
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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