aguado
/a.ˈɡwa.du/
The verdict
“aguado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,917 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,917
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diluído em muita água
Corpus desk
Index PT-aguado · aguado · Portuguese
aguado · rank #55,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,917
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH agravante
Nearest frequency peer: agravante (-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 “aguado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- aculturação
aculturação
44,099 corpus weight
- aerodinâmico
aerodinâmico
44,089 corpus weight
- aglomerar
aglomerar
44,087 corpus weight
- agravante
agravante
44,085 corpus weight
- aguado
aguado
44,084 corpus weight
- apagamento
apagamento
44,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “aguado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aguado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /a.ˈɡwa.du/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “aguado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
aguado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,917 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /a.ˈɡwa.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for aguado in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is aguado, spelled A-G-U-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1diluído em muita água
- 2pouco ou nada moreno, sem sal, sem graça
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aguado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Esse suco está muito aguado, pior nunca se viu, a água do aquário deve estar mais gostosa, aguado e sem açucar ainda por cima, meu fígado de Zeca Pagodinho parou de funcionar por causa desse suco.
Não chame ela de loira aguada criatura! Eu vou falar tudo para a nossa mãe quando chegarmos em casa.
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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