nicht
/nɪçt/
The verdict
“nicht” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,193 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,193
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - não.
Corpus desk
Index PT-nicht · nicht · Portuguese
nicht · rank #71,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,193
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH oblivion
Nearest frequency peer: oblivion (+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 “nicht”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- mich
mich
28,834 corpus weight
- module
module
28,824 corpus weight
- nalguma
nalguma
28,813 corpus weight
- nicht
nicht
28,808 corpus weight
- oblivion
oblivion
28,804 corpus weight
- paginação
paginação
28,791 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “nicht” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nicht |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /nɪçt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “nicht” em português
Rare enough to double-check
nicht is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,193 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /nɪçt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "não.".
nicht has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 nicht, spelled N-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1não.
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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