letão
/le.ˈtãw/
The verdict
“letão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,555 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,555
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - da Letônia (Letónia)
Corpus desk
Index PT-letao · letão · Portuguese
letão · rank #80,555 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,555
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH leche
Nearest frequency peer: leche (-3 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 “letão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Jacobo
Jacobo
19,478 corpus weight
- janvier
janvier
19,475 corpus weight
- leche
leche
19,449 corpus weight
- letão
letão
19,446 corpus weight
- likely
likely
19,441 corpus weight
- magistralme…
magistralmente
19,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “letão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | letão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /le.ˈtãw/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “letão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
letão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,555 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /le.ˈtãw/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "da Letônia (Letónia)".
letão doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is letão, spelled L-E-T-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1da Letônia (Letónia)
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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