wit
/wɪt/, ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“wit” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,323 among 110 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,323
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - branco
Corpus desk
Index PT-wit · wit · Portuguese
wit · rank #55,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,323
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH windsurf
Nearest frequency peer: windsurf (-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 “wit”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- vivre
vivre
44,685 corpus weight
- wealth
wealth
44,680 corpus weight
- windsurf
windsurf
44,679 corpus weight
- wit
wit
44,678 corpus weight
- acinzentado
acinzentado
44,660 corpus weight
- adaptabilid…
adaptabilidade
44,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “wit” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wit |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /wɪt/, ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “wit” em português
Rare enough to double-check
wit is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,323 among 110 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /wɪt/, ouvir^(fonte ?). Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "branco".
wit has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is wit, spelled W-I-T.
Definition
- 1branco
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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