laine
\lɛn\
The verdict
“laine” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,972 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,972
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lã
Corpus desk
Index PT-laine · laine · Portuguese
laine · rank #53,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,972
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lad
Nearest frequency peer: lad (-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 “laine”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- isótopo
isótopo
46,048 corpus weight
- joio
joio
46,041 corpus weight
- Kamel
Kamel
46,038 corpus weight
- lad
lad
46,030 corpus weight
- laine
laine
46,029 corpus weight
- lojista
lojista
46,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “laine” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laine |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “laine” em português
Rare enough to double-check
laine is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,972 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "lã".
laine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is laine, spelled L-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1lã
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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