légua
/ˈlɛ.ɡwɐ/
The verdict
“légua” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,974 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,974
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - medida de distância em vigor antes da adoção do sistema métrico, cujo valor varia de acordo com a época, país ou região; no Brasil, vale aproximadamente 6.600 m, em Portugal, 5.572 m
Corpus desk
Index PT-legua · légua · Portuguese
légua · rank #68,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,974
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH mansidão
Nearest frequency peer: mansidão (+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 “légua”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- kero
kero
31,060 corpus weight
- lent
lent
31,045 corpus weight
- légua
légua
31,027 corpus weight
- mansidão
mansidão
31,020 corpus weight
- mosqueteiro
mosqueteiro
30,997 corpus weight
- nein
nein
30,983 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “légua” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légua |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɛ.ɡwɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “légua” em português
Rare enough to double-check
légua is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,974 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlɛ.ɡwɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
légua has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is légua, spelled L-É-G-U-A.
Definition
- 1medida de distância em vigor antes da adoção do sistema métrico, cujo valor varia de acordo com a época, país ou região; no Brasil, vale aproximadamente 6.600 m, em Portugal, 5.572 m
- 2(Derivação: por extensão de sentido): distância não especificada que se imagina grande ou muito grande; grande comprimento ou distância (mais usadado no plural)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how légua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Andamos léguas sem ver viva alma.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).