slay
/sleɪ/,
The verdict
“slay” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,565 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,565
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - matar, assassinar
Corpus desk
Index PT-slay · slay · Portuguese
slay · rank #89,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,565
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH simetricamente
Nearest frequency peer: simetricamente (-7 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 “slay”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sarça
sarça
10,476 corpus weight
- Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
10,475 corpus weight
- shae
shae
10,453 corpus weight
- simetricame…
simetricamente
10,443 corpus weight
- slay
slay
10,436 corpus weight
- tack
tack
10,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “slay” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slay |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /sleɪ/, |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “slay” em português
Rare enough to double-check
slay is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,565 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /sleɪ/,. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for slay in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is slay, spelled S-L-A-Y.
Definition
- 1matar, assassinar
- 2conquistar, dominar
- 3destruir
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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