ladino
The verdict
“ladino” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #67,601 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #67,601
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - astuto, finório, manhoso
| 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) |
Where “ladino” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ladino is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #67,601 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
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 “ladino”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-A-D-I-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.