kana
/kɐ.ˈna/
The verdict
“kana” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,074 among 95 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,074
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - um dos dois silabários que constituem o sistema de escrita japonês
Corpus desk
Index PT-kana · kana · Portuguese
kana · rank #74,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,074
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH karting
Nearest frequency peer: karting (+1 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 “kana”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- irresistive…
irresistivelmente
25,938 corpus weight
- Josep
Josep
25,930 corpus weight
- kana
kana
25,927 corpus weight
- karting
karting
25,926 corpus weight
- leptospirose
leptospirose
25,903 corpus weight
- Liberia
Liberia
25,901 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “kana” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kana |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈna/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “kana” em português
Rare enough to double-check
kana is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,074 among 95 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.ˈna/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
kana doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is kana, spelled K-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1um dos dois silabários que constituem o sistema de escrita japonês
- 2cada um desses caracteres
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Outros movimentos defendiam a romanização da escrita japonesa, enquanto outros queriam eliminar completamente o uso de
This word in other languages
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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