laz
/las/ ou /laθ/
The verdict
“laz” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,969 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,969
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geada; dureza da terra provocada pela geada
Corpus desk
Index PT-laz · laz · Portuguese
laz · rank #83,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,969
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH levianamente
Nearest frequency peer: levianamente (+7 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 “laz”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ionizado
ionizado
16,068 corpus weight
- jorro
jorro
16,055 corpus weight
- laz
laz
16,032 corpus weight
- levianamente
levianamente
16,025 corpus weight
- limar
limar
16,019 corpus weight
- luego
luego
16,008 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “laz” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laz |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /las/ ou /laθ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “laz” em português
Rare enough to double-check
laz is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,969 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /las/ ou /laθ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
laz has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is laz, spelled L-A-Z.
Definition
- 1geada; dureza da terra provocada pela geada
- 2gelo
- 3cristal de gelo que se forma sobre as poças
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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