orelhões
/o.ɾe.'ʎoŋs/, /o.ɾe.'ʎos/ ou /o.ɾe.ʎoɪs/
The verdict
“orelhões” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,993 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,993
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - trasorelho, papeira, inflamação das parótidas
Corpus desk
Index PT-orelhoes · orelhões · Portuguese
orelhões · rank #64,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,993
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH otite
Nearest frequency peer: otite (+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 “orelhões”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- mot
mot
35,039 corpus weight
- másculo
másculo
35,031 corpus weight
- orelhões
orelhões
35,008 corpus weight
- otite
otite
35,006 corpus weight
- papaia
papaia
35,000 corpus weight
- pineapple
pineapple
34,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “orelhões” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orelhões |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /o.ɾe.'ʎoŋs/, /o.ɾe.'ʎos/ ou /o.ɾe.ʎoɪs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “orelhões” em português
Rare enough to double-check
orelhões is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,993 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /o.ɾe.'ʎoŋs/, /o.ɾe.'ʎos/ ou /o.ɾe.ʎoɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "trasorelho, papeira, inflamação das parótidas".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for orelhões, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is orelhões, spelled O-R-E-L-H-Õ-E-S.
Definition
- 1trasorelho, papeira, inflamação das parótidas
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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