agave
/a.'ga.vi/
The verdict
“agave” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,947 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,947
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - planta da família das Amarilidáceas, oriunda do México
Corpus desk
Index PT-agave · agave · Portuguese
agave · rank #65,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,947
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH agiotagem
Nearest frequency peer: agiotagem (+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 “agave”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- acalorado
acalorado
34,066 corpus weight
- acanhado
acanhado
34,065 corpus weight
- acuado
acuado
34,062 corpus weight
- agave
agave
34,054 corpus weight
- agiotagem
agiotagem
34,053 corpus weight
- amma
amma
34,044 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “agave” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agave |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /a.'ga.vi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “agave” em português
Rare enough to double-check
agave is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,947 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /a.'ga.vi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "planta da família das Amarilidáceas, oriunda do México".
Zero misspellings are on record for agave in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is agave, spelled A-G-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1planta da família das Amarilidáceas, oriunda do México
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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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