sail
/sa.ˈil/
The verdict
“sail” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,864 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,864
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vela (pano que se prende ao mastro de uma embarcação)
Corpus desk
Index PT-sail · sail · Portuguese
sail · rank #69,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,864
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH rugir
Nearest frequency peer: rugir (-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 “sail”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- refugo
refugo
30,167 corpus weight
- rugir
rugir
30,141 corpus weight
- sail
sail
30,137 corpus weight
- sheet
sheet
30,112 corpus weight
- simultaneid…
simultaneidade
30,105 corpus weight
- sistematizar
sistematizar
30,102 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sail” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sail |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sa.ˈil/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sail” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sail is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,864 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sa.ˈil/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vela (pano que se prende ao mastro de uma embarcação)".
Zero misspellings are on record for sail in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is sail, spelled S-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1vela (pano que se prende ao mastro de uma embarcação)
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).