needle
/ˈniː.dl/
The verdict
“needle” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,551 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,551
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - agulha
Corpus desk
Index PT-needle · needle · Portuguese
needle · rank #54,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,551
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH nap
Nearest frequency peer: nap (-5 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 “needle”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- multimilion…
multimilionário
45,459 corpus weight
- mussarela
mussarela
45,458 corpus weight
- nap
nap
45,455 corpus weight
- needle
needle
45,450 corpus weight
- Núbia
Núbia
45,443 corpus weight
- núncio
núncio
45,442 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “needle” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | needle |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈniː.dl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “needle” em português
Rare enough to double-check
needle is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,551 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈniː.dl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "agulha".
Zero misspellings are on record for needle in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is needle, spelled N-E-E-D-L-E.
Definition
- 1agulha
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).