snatch
/snætʃ/
The verdict
“snatch” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,720 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,720
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abocanhar
Corpus desk
Index PT-snatch · snatch · Portuguese
snatch · rank #76,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,720
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sonoplastia
Nearest frequency peer: sonoplastia (+5 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 “snatch”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- rotta
rotta
23,312 corpus weight
- selecionador
selecionador
23,297 corpus weight
- snatch
snatch
23,281 corpus weight
- sonoplastia
sonoplastia
23,276 corpus weight
- talude
talude
23,253 corpus weight
- teal
teal
23,249 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “snatch” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snatch |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /snætʃ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “snatch” em português
Rare enough to double-check
snatch is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,720 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /snætʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for snatch, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is snatch, spelled S-N-A-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1abocanhar
- 2arrebatar
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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