jari

noun

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The verdict

“jari” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,585 among 196 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,585
frequency rank, Portuguese
196
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - menino, garoto:

Corpus desk

Index PT-jari · jari · Portuguese

jari · rank #50,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,585
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 196
  • PHOTO-FINISH irritável

Nearest frequency peer: irritável (-6 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 “jari”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “jari” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for jari
PropertyValue
Headwordjari
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#50,585
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “jari” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).jaricai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “irritável” (#50,579), “irreverência” (#50,578), “indeferido” (#50,567). Entre 196 lemas com “J”, “jari” fica em #50,585. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

jari is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,585 among 196 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "menino, garoto:".

No misspelling variants are generated for jari in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is jari, spelled J-A-R-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    menino, garoto:

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how jari appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O jari está cansado de tanto remar..

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jari"?
"jari" is spelled J-A-R-I.
What does "jari" mean?
As a noun, "jari" means: menino, garoto:
What language does "jari" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jari", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

leer#50,610galé#50,524eren#50,485pati#50,692

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list