oxygen
/ɒksɪʤən̩/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“oxygen” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,923 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,923
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - oxigénio/oxigênio
Corpus desk
Index PT-oxygen · oxygen · Portuguese
oxygen · rank #59,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,923
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH pando
Nearest frequency peer: pando (+4 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 “oxygen”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- novelo
novelo
40,088 corpus weight
- obstinação
obstinação
40,085 corpus weight
- oxygen
oxygen
40,078 corpus weight
- pando
pando
40,074 corpus weight
- paulada
paulada
40,069 corpus weight
- phase
phase
40,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “oxygen” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oxygen |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɒksɪʤən̩/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “oxygen” em português
Rare enough to double-check
oxygen is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,923 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɒksɪʤən̩/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "oxigénio/oxigênio".
oxygen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is oxygen, spelled O-X-Y-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1oxigénio/oxigênio
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).