Lack
/ˈlak/
The verdict
“Lack” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,599 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,599
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verniz.
Corpus desk
Index PT-lack · Lack · Portuguese
Lack · rank #67,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,599
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH labareda
Nearest frequency peer: labareda (-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 “Lack”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- kam
kam
32,414 corpus weight
- Kiefer
Kiefer
32,410 corpus weight
- labareda
labareda
32,403 corpus weight
- Lack
Lack
32,402 corpus weight
- ladino
ladino
32,400 corpus weight
- ladrilho
ladrilho
32,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Lack” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Lack” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Lack is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,599 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlak/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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