Yak
/jak/
The verdict
“Yak” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,366 among 26 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,366
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 26
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - iaque
Corpus desk
Index PT-yak · Yak · Portuguese
Yak · rank #84,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,366
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 26
- PHOTO-FINISH wilderness
Nearest frequency peer: wilderness (-5 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Yak”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- vocalização
vocalização
15,650 corpus weight
- vocativo
vocativo
15,648 corpus weight
- volumétrico
volumétrico
15,646 corpus weight
- Wand
Wand
15,642 corpus weight
- wilderness
wilderness
15,640 corpus weight
- Yak
Yak
15,635 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Yak” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yak |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /jak/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #84,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “Yak” fica na frequência do português
Rare enough to double-check
Yak is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,366 among 26 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /jak/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "iaque".
Yak doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is Yak, spelled Y-A-K.
Definition
- 1iaque
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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