lonesome
/ˈloʊnsəm/
The verdict
“lonesome” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,478 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,478
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - solitário
Corpus desk
Index PT-lonesome · lonesome · Portuguese
lonesome · rank #87,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,478
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH maggio
Nearest frequency peer: maggio (+4 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 “lonesome”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Iceland
Iceland
12,597 corpus weight
- imanência
imanência
12,589 corpus weight
- Kos
Kos
12,544 corpus weight
- lonesome
lonesome
12,523 corpus weight
- maggio
maggio
12,519 corpus weight
- Mioto
Mioto
12,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “lonesome” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lonesome |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈloʊnsəm/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lonesome” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lonesome is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,478 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈloʊnsəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "solitário".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lonesome in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 lonesome, spelled L-O-N-E-S-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1solitário
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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