uzi
/ˈu.zi/.
The verdict
“uzi” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,644 among 147 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,644
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - usar, empregar, servir-se de, despender
Corpus desk
Index PT-uzi · uzi · Portuguese
uzi · rank #53,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,644
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH utilizável
Nearest frequency peer: utilizável (-1 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 “uzi”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tabuada
tabuada
46,387 corpus weight
- terciário
terciário
46,379 corpus weight
- usurpar
usurpar
46,359 corpus weight
- utilizável
utilizável
46,358 corpus weight
- uzi
uzi
46,357 corpus weight
- vittoria
vittoria
46,350 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “uzi” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uzi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈu.zi/. |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #53,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “uzi” em português
Rare enough to double-check
uzi is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,644 among 147 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈu.zi/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "usar, empregar, servir-se de, despender".
No generated misspelling entries exist for uzi in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is uzi, spelled U-Z-I.
Definition
- 1usar, empregar, servir-se de, despender
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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