sneak
/sniːk/
The verdict
“sneak” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,820 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,820
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - esgueirar
Corpus desk
Index PT-sneak · sneak · Portuguese
sneak · rank #65,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,820
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sombreado
Nearest frequency peer: sombreado (+3 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 “sneak”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sav
sav
34,203 corpus weight
- seixo
seixo
34,197 corpus weight
- semeador
semeador
34,194 corpus weight
- sneak
sneak
34,181 corpus weight
- sombreado
sombreado
34,178 corpus weight
- suinocultura
suinocultura
34,162 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sneak” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sneak |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /sniːk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sneak” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sneak is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,820 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /sniːk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "esgueirar".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sneak, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is sneak, spelled S-N-E-A-K.
Definition
- 1esgueirar
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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