mayday
/ˈmeɪ.deɪ/
The verdict
“mayday” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,997 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,997
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pedido de socorro internacional emitido por navio ou aeronave
Corpus desk
Index PT-mayday · mayday · Portuguese
mayday · rank #53,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,997
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH lojista
Nearest frequency peer: lojista (-11 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 “mayday”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- laine
laine
46,029 corpus weight
- lojista
lojista
46,015 corpus weight
- mayday
mayday
46,004 corpus weight
- morteiro
morteiro
45,989 corpus weight
- nefasto
nefasto
45,982 corpus weight
- nivelamento
nivelamento
45,979 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mayday” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mayday |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmeɪ.deɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mayday” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mayday is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,997 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmeɪ.deɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pedido de socorro internacional emitido por navio ou aeronave".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mayday, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 mayday, spelled M-A-Y-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1pedido de socorro internacional emitido por navio ou aeronave
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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