ish
The verdict
“ish” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,000 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,000
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - indica que algo é de tal forma apenas até certo ponto
Corpus desk
Index PT-ish · ish · Portuguese
ish · rank #58,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,000
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH intuitivamente
Nearest frequency peer: intuitivamente (-4 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 “ish”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- hug
hug
42,026 corpus weight
- importance
importance
42,020 corpus weight
- intuitivame…
intuitivamente
42,005 corpus weight
- ish
ish
42,001 corpus weight
- koko
koko
41,983 corpus weight
- Krebs
Krebs
41,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ish” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ish |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #58,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ish” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ish is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,000 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "indica que algo é de tal forma apenas até certo ponto".
No misspelling variants are generated for ish in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is ish, spelled I-S-H.
Definition
- 1indica que algo é de tal forma apenas até certo ponto
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Do you still feel sick? — Ish.
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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