radon
/ʀadɔ͂/
The verdict
“radon” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,156 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,156
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - radão/radônio
Corpus desk
Index PT-radon · radon · Portuguese
radon · rank #94,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,156
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH Publius
Nearest frequency peer: Publius (-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 “radon”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pontilhão
pontilhão
5,881 corpus weight
- premeditação
premeditação
5,874 corpus weight
- psicadélico
psicadélico
5,856 corpus weight
- Publius
Publius
5,853 corpus weight
- radon
radon
5,845 corpus weight
- retardatário
retardatário
5,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “radon” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radon |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʀadɔ͂/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “radon” em português
Rare enough to double-check
radon is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,156 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʀadɔ͂/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "radão/radônio".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for radon, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is radon, spelled R-A-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1radão/radônio
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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