Oiapoque
The verdict
“Oiapoque” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,682 among 846 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,682
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 846
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - nome do anel interno e mais denso do asteroide 10199 Cáriclo, um centauro com órbita entre os planetas Saturno e Urano, nomeado em homenagem ao rio Oiapoque no extremo norte brasileiro, com registr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oiapoque |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Oiapoque” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Oiapoque is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,682 among 846 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nome do anel interno e mais denso do asteroide 10199 Cáriclo, um centauro com órbita entre os planetas Saturno e Urano, nomeado em homenagem ao rio Oiapoque no extremo norte brasileiro, com registr...".
Zero misspellings are on record for Oiapoque in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is Oiapoque, spelled O-I-A-P-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1nome do anel interno e mais denso do asteroide 10199 Cáriclo, um centauro com órbita entre os planetas Saturno e Urano, nomeado em homenagem ao rio Oiapoque no extremo norte brasileiro, com registro astronômico 2013C1R
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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Using “Oiapoque”
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- The one correct Portuguese spelling is O-I-A-P-O-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.