naso

/'naso/

//'naso// noun

The verdict

“naso” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,753 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,753
frequency rank, Portuguese
360
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nariz

Corpus desk

Index PT-naso · naso · Portuguese

naso · rank #69,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,753
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 360
  • PHOTO-FINISH muvuca

Nearest frequency peer: muvuca (-1 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 “naso”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “naso” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for naso
PropertyValue
Headwordnaso
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/'naso/
Letters4
Frequency rank#69,753
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “naso” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).nasocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “muvuca” (#69,752), “mors” (#69,744), “obtuso” (#69,762). Entre 360 lemas com “N”, “naso” fica em #69,753. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

naso is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,753 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /'naso/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nariz".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for naso, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is naso, spelled N-A-S-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    nariz

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "naso"?
"naso" is spelled N-A-S-O. The IPA pronunciation is /'naso/.
What does "naso" mean?
As a noun, "naso" means: nariz
How do you pronounce "naso"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "naso" is /'naso/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "naso" come from?
"naso" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "naso", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list