vague
\vaɡ\
The verdict
“vague” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,828 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,828
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vago
Corpus desk
Index PT-vague · vague · Portuguese
vague · rank #67,828 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,828
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH trincar
Nearest frequency peer: trincar (-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 “vague”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- termonuclear
termonuclear
32,197 corpus weight
- Tessália
Tessália
32,196 corpus weight
- tonel
tonel
32,189 corpus weight
- trincar
trincar
32,180 corpus weight
- vague
vague
32,173 corpus weight
- yogurt
yogurt
32,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vague” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vague |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vaɡ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “vague” em português
Rare enough to double-check
vague is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,828 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vaɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vago".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vague, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 vague, spelled V-A-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1vago
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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