Vanuatu
/va.nu.a.ˈtu/, /vã.nu.a.ˈtu/
The verdict
“Vanuatu” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #60,080 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #60,080
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - país da Melanésia, ocupa o arquipélago das Novas Hébridas, próximo à Austrália; sua capital é Port Villa
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vanuatu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /va.nu.a.ˈtu/, /vã.nu.a.ˈtu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Vanuatu” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Vanuatu is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /va.nu.a.ˈtu/, /vã.nu.a.ˈtu/. Corpus data places it at rank #60,080 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "país da Melanésia, ocupa o arquipélago das Novas Hébridas, próximo à Austrália; sua capital é Port Villa".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Vanuatu in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is Vanuatu, spelled V-A-N-U-A-T-U.
Definition
- 1país da Melanésia, ocupa o arquipélago das Novas Hébridas, próximo à Austrália; sua capital é Port Villa
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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Using “Vanuatu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is V-A-N-U-A-T-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /va.nu.a.ˈtu/, /vã.nu.a.ˈtu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.