ouija
/ow.'i.ʒɐ/
The verdict
“ouija” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,128 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,128
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superfície plana com letras, números ou outros símbolos em que se coloca um indicador móvel, utilizada supostamente para comunicação com espíritos
Corpus desk
Index PT-ouija · ouija · Portuguese
ouija · rank #50,128 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,128
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH paio
Nearest frequency peer: paio (+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 “ouija”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- obstinada
obstinada
49,885 corpus weight
- oiticica
oiticica
49,883 corpus weight
- oitiva
oitiva
49,882 corpus weight
- ouija
ouija
49,873 corpus weight
- paio
paio
49,872 corpus weight
- parati
parati
49,869 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ouija” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouija |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ow.'i.ʒɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ouija” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ouija is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,128 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ow.'i.ʒɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "superfície plana com letras, números ou outros símbolos em que se coloca um indicador móvel, utilizada supostamente para comunicação com espíritos".
ouija has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ouija, spelled O-U-I-J-A.
Definition
- 1superfície plana com letras, números ou outros símbolos em que se coloca um indicador móvel, utilizada supostamente para comunicação com espíritos
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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