vigie
/vi.ʒi/
The verdict
“vigie” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,430 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,430
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - posto de observação
Corpus desk
Index PT-vigie · vigie · Portuguese
vigie · rank #83,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,430
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH véi
Nearest frequency peer: véi (+5 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 “vigie”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- throughout
throughout
16,621 corpus weight
- vigie
vigie
16,571 corpus weight
- véi
véi
16,566 corpus weight
- zilhão
zilhão
16,547 corpus weight
- abada
abada
16,535 corpus weight
- abjeto
abjeto
16,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vigie” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vigie |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vi.ʒi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “vigie” em português
Rare enough to double-check
vigie is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,430 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /vi.ʒi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "posto de observação".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vigie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is vigie, spelled V-I-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1posto de observação
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).