sudoku
/su.do.ˈku/ ou /su.ˈdo.ku/
The verdict
“sudoku” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,042 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,042
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - desafio semelhante ao de palavras cruzadas, porém com números, que consiste em relacionar numerais de 1 a 9 em três quadrados verticais e três horizontais cada um contendo nove quadros onde os núme...
Corpus desk
Index PT-sudoku · sudoku · Portuguese
sudoku · rank #60,042 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,042
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sucks
Nearest frequency peer: sucks (-2 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 “sudoku”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Sommer
Sommer
39,974 corpus weight
- subentendido
subentendido
39,966 corpus weight
- sucks
sucks
39,961 corpus weight
- sudoku
sudoku
39,959 corpus weight
- sórdido
sórdido
39,951 corpus weight
- tilápia
tilápia
39,946 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sudoku” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sudoku |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /su.do.ˈku/ ou /su.ˈdo.ku/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sudoku” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sudoku is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,042 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /su.do.ˈku/ ou /su.ˈdo.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "desafio semelhante ao de palavras cruzadas, porém com números, que consiste em relacionar numerais de 1 a 9 em três quadrados verticais e três horizontais cada um contendo nove quadros onde os núme...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sudoku in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is sudoku, spelled S-U-D-O-K-U.
Definition
- 1desafio semelhante ao de palavras cruzadas, porém com números, que consiste em relacionar numerais de 1 a 9 em três quadrados verticais e três horizontais cada um contendo nove quadros onde os números são escritos, formando assim nove fileiras em ambos os sentidos, de modo que nenhum dos números pode se repetir nem dentro de cada quadrado nem em cada fileira onde apenas uma solução é possível, tendo vários graus de dificuldade
This word in other languages
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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