Lack
/ˈlak/
The verdict
“Lack” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #67,599 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #67,599
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - verniz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lack |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlak/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lack” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Lack is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlak/. Corpus data places it at rank #67,599 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "verniz.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lack, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 explicit etymology string is stored 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 Lack, spelled L-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1verniz.
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 “Lack”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-A-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈlak/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.