aficionado

adj

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The verdict

“aficionado” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #52,536 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.

#52,536
frequency rank, Portuguese
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - apreciador de uma atividade desportiva, artística, intelectual etc

Key facts for aficionado
PropertyValue
Headwordaficionado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Frequency rank#52,536
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “aficionado” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). aficionado lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for aficionado is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #52,536 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "apreciador de uma atividade desportiva, artística, intelectual etc".

aficionado has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is aficionado, spelled A-F-I-C-I-O-N-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    apreciador de uma atividade desportiva, artística, intelectual etc

Synonyms

aficcionado

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aficionado"?
"aficionado" is spelled A-F-I-C-I-O-N-A-D-O.
What does "aficionado" mean?
As an adjective, "aficionado" means: apreciador de uma atividade desportiva, artística, intelectual etc
What language does "aficionado" come from?
"aficionado" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “aficionado”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-F-I-C-I-O-N-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list