afortunado
/ɐ.fuɾ.tu.ˈna.du/
The verdict
“afortunado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,214 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,214
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aquele ou aquilo que tem fortuna
Corpus desk
Index PT-afortunado · afortunado · Portuguese
afortunado · rank #67,214 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,214
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH alheira
Nearest frequency peer: alheira (+9 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 “afortunado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- 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
- assiduamente
assiduamente
32,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “afortunado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afortunado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐ.fuɾ.tu.ˈna.du/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “afortunado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
afortunado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,214 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɐ.fuɾ.tu.ˈna.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for afortunado in our index, 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is afortunado, spelled A-F-O-R-T-U-N-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1aquele ou aquilo que tem fortuna
- 2feliz
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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