aguçado
/ɐ.ɡu.ˈsa.du/
The verdict
“aguçado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,755 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,755
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - afiado
Corpus desk
Index PT-agucado · aguçado · Portuguese
aguçado · rank #54,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,755
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH aku
Nearest frequency peer: aku (+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 “aguçado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Adelina
Adelina
45,252 corpus weight
- Adonis
Adonis
45,249 corpus weight
- aguçado
aguçado
45,246 corpus weight
- aku
aku
45,245 corpus weight
- amoníaco
amoníaco
45,238 corpus weight
- amoreira
amoreira
45,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “aguçado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aguçado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐ.ɡu.ˈsa.du/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “aguçado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
aguçado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,755 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɐ.ɡu.ˈsa.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aguçado, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is aguçado, spelled A-G-U-Ç-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1afiado
- 2perspicaz, sagaz
- 3alerta; que presta atenção
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aguçado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sem abandonar as sapatilhas, mas guiados pelo olhar aguçado e moderno de George Balanchine, surge Apollo, com música de Igor Stravinski.
E espera que seus atletas, com faro mais aguçado, não desperdicem chances de gol.
This word in other languages
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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