rag
/ɹæɡ/
The verdict
“rag” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,783 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,783
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - farrapo, trapo
Corpus desk
Index PT-rag · rag · Portuguese
rag · rank #63,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,783
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH quebradiço
Nearest frequency peer: quebradiço (-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 “rag”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- proliferar
proliferar
36,235 corpus weight
- proverbial
proverbial
36,232 corpus weight
- quebradiço
quebradiço
36,222 corpus weight
- rag
rag
36,218 corpus weight
- reincidente
reincidente
36,204 corpus weight
- relate
relate
36,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “rag” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rag |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹæɡ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “rag” em português
Rare enough to double-check
rag is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,783 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹæɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "farrapo, trapo".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rag in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 rag, spelled R-A-G.
Definition
- 1farrapo, trapo
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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