jaw
/ʤɔː/
The verdict
“jaw” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #95,856 among 196 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,856
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - maxilar, maxilar inferior, maxila
Corpus desk
Index PT-jaw · jaw · Portuguese
jaw · rank #95,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,856
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH Kuba
Nearest frequency peer: Kuba (+27 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 “jaw”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- jaw
jaw
4,145 corpus weight
- Kuba
Kuba
4,118 corpus weight
- lezíria
lezíria
4,102 corpus weight
- Luxembourg
Luxembourg
4,089 corpus weight
- Mangold
Mangold
4,075 corpus weight
- manjerona
manjerona
4,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “jaw” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaw |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʤɔː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #95,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “jaw” em português
Rare enough to double-check
jaw is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #95,856 among 196 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʤɔː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for jaw in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is jaw, spelled J-A-W.
Definition
- 1maxilar, maxilar inferior, maxila
- 2mandíbula, queixada
- 3boca
- 4entrada
- 5sermão, tagarelice
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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