kam
The verdict
“kam” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #67,587 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #67,587
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aonde, para onde
| 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) |
Where “kam” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for kam is 3 letters long, classified as an adverb. Corpus data places it at rank #67,587 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “kam”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is K-A-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.