walnut
The verdict
“walnut” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,434 among 110 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,434
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - noz
Corpus desk
Index PT-walnut · walnut · Portuguese
walnut · rank #71,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,434
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH wafer
Nearest frequency peer: wafer (-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 “walnut”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- vacilante
vacilante
28,583 corpus weight
- ventilar
ventilar
28,577 corpus weight
- wafer
wafer
28,568 corpus weight
- walnut
walnut
28,567 corpus weight
- Zambia
Zambia
28,558 corpus weight
- Adolph
Adolph
28,539 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “walnut” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | walnut |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “walnut” em português
Rare enough to double-check
walnut is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,434 among 110 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for walnut in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is walnut, spelled W-A-L-N-U-T.
Definition
- 1noz
- 2nogueira
- 3madeira da nogueira
- 4a cor castanha escura
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).