ongoing
The verdict
“ongoing” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #79,820 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,820
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - em andamento
Corpus desk
Index PT-ongoing · ongoing · Portuguese
ongoing · rank #79,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,820
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH onírico
Nearest frequency peer: onírico (+2 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 “ongoing”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- nanica
nanica
20,208 corpus weight
- obscurecer
obscurecer
20,188 corpus weight
- ongoing
ongoing
20,181 corpus weight
- onírico
onírico
20,179 corpus weight
- pentatlo
pentatlo
20,153 corpus weight
- perecem
perecem
20,152 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ongoing” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ongoing |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ongoing” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ongoing is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #79,820 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "em andamento".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ongoing, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is ongoing, spelled O-N-G-O-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1em andamento
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ongoing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ongoing projects
projetos em andamento
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).