ladino
The verdict
“ladino” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,601 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,601
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - astuto, finório, manhoso
Corpus desk
Index PT-ladino · ladino · Portuguese
ladino · rank #67,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,601
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH ladrilho
Nearest frequency peer: ladrilho (+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 “ladino”
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 “ladino” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ladino |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ladino” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ladino is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,601 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ladino, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ladino, spelled L-A-D-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1astuto, finório, manhoso
- 2relativo ao escravo que sabia falar português em oposição ao boçal
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ladino appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ladino, esperto, só se aprofunda sobre um tema quando tem certeza que sua opinião expressa os anseios e as verdades da maioria.
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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