wheat
/wiːt/
The verdict
“wheat” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,897 among 110 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,897
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - trigo
Corpus desk
Index PT-wheat · wheat · Portuguese
wheat · rank #80,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,897
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH xaxado
Nearest frequency peer: xaxado (+9 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 “wheat”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- vestibulando
vestibulando
19,123 corpus weight
- wheat
wheat
19,104 corpus weight
- xaxado
xaxado
19,095 corpus weight
- abreviadame…
abreviadamente
19,081 corpus weight
- accounting
accounting
19,077 corpus weight
- Acker
Acker
19,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “wheat” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wheat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /wiːt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “wheat” em português
Rare enough to double-check
wheat is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,897 among 110 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /wiːt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "trigo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wheat, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 wheat, spelled W-H-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1trigo
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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