ouch
The verdict
“ouch” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,160 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,160
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ai, au, hui, ui (expressão de dor ou desconforto)
Corpus desk
Index PT-ouch · ouch · Portuguese
ouch · rank #83,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,160
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH otherwise
Nearest frequency peer: otherwise (-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 “ouch”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- OOP
OOP
16,847 corpus weight
- organ
organ
16,846 corpus weight
- Orpheus
Orpheus
16,845 corpus weight
- otherwise
otherwise
16,842 corpus weight
- ouch
ouch
16,841 corpus weight
- overkill
overkill
16,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ouch” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouch |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ouch” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ouch is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,160 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ai, au, hui, ui (expressão de dor ou desconforto)".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ouch, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is ouch, spelled O-U-C-H.
Definition
- 1ai, au, hui, ui (expressão de dor ou desconforto)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ouch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cold as Ice (Whatever After #6)
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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