portunhol
The verdict
“portunhol” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,558 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,558
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mistura de palavras da língua portuguesa e da espanhola usadas por falantes dessas duas línguas quando se expressam no outro idioma diferente de seu idioma materno
Corpus desk
Index PT-portunhol · portunhol · Portuguese
portunhol · rank #81,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,558
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH poisson
Nearest frequency peer: poisson (-8 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 “portunhol”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- philosophy
philosophy
18,461 corpus weight
- poisson
poisson
18,451 corpus weight
- portunhol
portunhol
18,443 corpus weight
- prompt
prompt
18,433 corpus weight
- proximamente
proximamente
18,425 corpus weight
- prudentemen…
prudentemente
18,424 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “portunhol” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portunhol |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “portunhol” em português
Rare enough to double-check
portunhol is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,558 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mistura de palavras da língua portuguesa e da espanhola usadas por falantes dessas duas línguas quando se expressam no outro idioma diferente de seu idioma materno".
No generated misspelling entries exist for portunhol in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is portunhol, spelled P-O-R-T-U-N-H-O-L.
Definition
- 1mistura de palavras da língua portuguesa e da espanhola usadas por falantes dessas duas línguas quando se expressam no outro idioma diferente de seu idioma materno
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how portunhol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cantando a maior parte das letras em castelhano, Johansen também brincou com o portunhol e o espanglês
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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