nut

noun

The verdict

“nut” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,024 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,024
frequency rank, Portuguese
360
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - louco, doido, demente, lelé, perturbado

Corpus desk

Index PT-nut · nut · Portuguese

nut · rank #54,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,024
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 360
  • PHOTO-FINISH náufrago

Nearest frequency peer: náufrago (+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 “nut”

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for nut
PropertyValue
Headwordnut
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#54,024
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “nut” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).nutcai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “náufrago” (#54,025), “nivelamento” (#54,022), “ocasionado” (#54,027). Entre 360 lemas com “N”, “nut” fica em #54,024. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

nut is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,024 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "louco, doido, demente, lelé, perturbado".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nut, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 nut, spelled N-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    louco, doido, demente, lelé, perturbado

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how nut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I'm a nut. Dontcha?

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 "nut"?
"nut" is spelled N-U-T.
What does "nut" mean?
As a noun, "nut" means: louco, doido, demente, lelé, perturbado
What language does "nut" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list