whore
/hoʊr/, /hɔr/, /hʊr/
The verdict
“whore” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #95,352 among 110 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,352
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - prostituta
Corpus desk
Index PT-whore · whore · Portuguese
whore · rank #95,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,352
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH wanderer
Nearest frequency peer: wanderer (-4 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 “whore”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Vatican
Vatican
4,682 corpus weight
- vika
vika
4,664 corpus weight
- wanderer
wanderer
4,653 corpus weight
- whore
whore
4,649 corpus weight
- xaile
xaile
4,644 corpus weight
- acastanhado
acastanhado
4,623 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “whore” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whore |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hoʊr/, /hɔr/, /hʊr/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “whore” em português
Rare enough to double-check
whore is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #95,352 among 110 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /hoʊr/, /hɔr/, /hʊr/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
whore doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is whore, spelled W-H-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1prostituta
- 2pessoa considerada sexualmente promíscua
- 3pessoa inescrupulosa, que se vende
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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