manas
/ˈmã.nɐs/
The verdict
“manas” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,080 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,080
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - feminino plural de mano
Corpus desk
Index PT-manas · manas · Portuguese
manas · rank #50,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,080
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH Marciana
Nearest frequency peer: Marciana (+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 “manas”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- lito
lito
49,936 corpus weight
- manas
manas
49,921 corpus weight
- Marciana
Marciana
49,917 corpus weight
- mijada
mijada
49,911 corpus weight
- mísero
mísero
49,896 corpus weight
- nanico
nanico
49,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “manas” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manas |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmã.nɐs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “manas” em português
Rare enough to double-check
manas is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,080 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmã.nɐs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "feminino plural de mano".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for manas, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 manas, spelled M-A-N-A-S.
Definition
- 1feminino plural de mano
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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