knot
/nɒt/
The verdict
“knot” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,657 among 95 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,657
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nó
Corpus desk
Index PT-knot · knot · Portuguese
knot · rank #61,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,657
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH joke
Nearest frequency peer: joke (-5 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 “knot”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- jejuar
jejuar
38,354 corpus weight
- joke
joke
38,349 corpus weight
- knot
knot
38,344 corpus weight
- lavrar
lavrar
38,338 corpus weight
- lexical
lexical
38,334 corpus weight
- libro
libro
38,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “knot” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knot |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /nɒt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “knot” em português
Rare enough to double-check
knot is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,657 among 95 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /nɒt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nó".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for knot, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 knot, spelled K-N-O-T.
Definition
- 1nó
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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