kam
The verdict
“kam” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,587 among 95 “K” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,587
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aonde, para onde
Corpus desk
Index PT-kam · kam · Portuguese
kam · rank #67,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,587
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH justaposição
Nearest frequency peer: justaposição (-2 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 “kam”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- izquierda
izquierda
32,426 corpus weight
- Josefo
Josefo
32,418 corpus weight
- justaposição
justaposição
32,416 corpus weight
- kam
kam
32,414 corpus weight
- Kiefer
Kiefer
32,410 corpus weight
- labareda
labareda
32,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “kam” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kam |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “kam” em português
Rare enough to double-check
kam is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,587 among 95 “K” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aonde, para onde".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kam, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 kam, spelled K-A-M.
Definition
- 1aonde, para onde
Antonyms
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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