nippon
\ni.pɔ̃\
The verdict
“nippon” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,360 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,360
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo ao Japão
Corpus desk
Index PT-nippon · nippon · Portuguese
nippon · rank #66,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,360
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH nuit
Nearest frequency peer: nuit (+3 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 “nippon”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- moc
moc
33,664 corpus weight
- nippon
nippon
33,641 corpus weight
- nuit
nuit
33,638 corpus weight
- nêmesis
nêmesis
33,637 corpus weight
- pajem
pajem
33,621 corpus weight
- parafernália
parafernália
33,618 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “nippon” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nippon |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ni.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “nippon” em português
Rare enough to double-check
nippon is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,360 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ni.pɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "relativo ao Japão".
nippon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 nippon, spelled N-I-P-P-O-N.
Definition
- 1relativo ao Japão
Synonyms
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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