aficionado
The verdict
“aficionado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,536 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,536
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - apreciador de uma atividade desportiva, artística, intelectual etc
Corpus desk
Index PT-aficionado · aficionado · Portuguese
aficionado · rank #52,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,536
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH afetuoso
Nearest frequency peer: afetuoso (-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 “aficionado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- acrescento
acrescento
47,474 corpus weight
- acrobacia
acrobacia
47,473 corpus weight
- acácia
acácia
47,472 corpus weight
- afetuoso
afetuoso
47,466 corpus weight
- aficionado
aficionado
47,465 corpus weight
- alarmar
alarmar
47,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “aficionado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aficionado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “aficionado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
aficionado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,536 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
- 1apreciador de uma atividade desportiva, artística, intelectual etc
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aficionado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
É aficionado de pesca com mosca.
Ele é aficionado de pintura.
Synonyms
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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