knee
/ˈniː/
The verdict
“knee” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,618 among 95 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,618
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - joelho
Corpus desk
Index PT-knee · knee · Portuguese
knee · rank #58,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,618
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH Lusitânia
Nearest frequency peer: Lusitânia (+17 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 “knee”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- iene
iene
41,415 corpus weight
- indolente
indolente
41,403 corpus weight
- infantilida…
infantilidade
41,402 corpus weight
- knee
knee
41,383 corpus weight
- Lusitânia
Lusitânia
41,366 corpus weight
- martelar
martelar
41,355 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “knee” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knee |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈniː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “knee” em português
Rare enough to double-check
knee is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,618 among 95 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈniː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for knee in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is knee, spelled K-N-E-E.
Definition
- 1joelho
- 2alguma coisa cujo formato lembra um joelho
- 3ponto de inflexão na linha de um gráfico
- 4ato de ajoelhar-se
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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