jamón
/xa.'mon/
The verdict
“jamón” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,460 among 196 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,460
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pernil de porco, presunto
Corpus desk
Index PT-jamon · jamón · Portuguese
jamón · rank #76,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,460
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH invariável
Nearest frequency peer: invariável (-11 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 “jamón”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- invariável
invariável
23,552 corpus weight
- jamón
jamón
23,541 corpus weight
- kettle
kettle
23,530 corpus weight
- koe
koe
23,528 corpus weight
- Krieg
Krieg
23,527 corpus weight
- lagostim
lagostim
23,522 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “jamón” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jamón |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /xa.'mon/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “jamón” em português
Rare enough to double-check
jamón is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,460 among 196 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /xa.'mon/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pernil de porco, presunto".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jamón, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is jamón, spelled J-A-M-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1pernil de porco, presunto
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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