widow
/ˈwɪ.dəʊ/ (Received Pronunciation); /ˈwɪ.doʊ/ (Estados Unidos)
The verdict
“widow” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,194 among 110 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,194
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - viúva; feminino de widower
Corpus desk
Index PT-widow · widow · Portuguese
widow · rank #67,194 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,194
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH vítreo
Nearest frequency peer: vítreo (-3 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 “widow”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tête
tête
32,834 corpus weight
- vítreo
vítreo
32,810 corpus weight
- widow
widow
32,807 corpus weight
- afortunado
afortunado
32,787 corpus weight
- alheira
alheira
32,778 corpus weight
- ambientar
ambientar
32,772 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “widow” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | widow |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪ.dəʊ/ (Received Pronunciation); /ˈwɪ.doʊ/ (Estados Unidos) |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “widow” em português
Rare enough to double-check
widow is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,194 among 110 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈwɪ.dəʊ/ (Received Pronunciation); /ˈwɪ.doʊ/ (Estados Unidos). Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "viúva; feminino de widower".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for widow, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 widow, spelled W-I-D-O-W.
Definition
- 1viúva; feminino de widower
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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