aguilhão
/ɐ.ɡi.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“aguilhão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,013 among 4,352 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,013
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4,352
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ponta de ferro da aguilhada - perfurante
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aguilhão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ.ɡi.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aguilhão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
aguilhão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,013 among 4,352 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɐ.ɡi.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 11 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for aguilhão in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is aguilhão, spelled A-G-U-I-L-H-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ponta de ferro da aguilhada - perfurante
- 2peça do moinho que corre por baixo do rodízio
- 3peça de ferro que se coloca no meio dos eixos de madeira dos engenhos de açúcar
- 4ponta dos eixos menores da moenda de cana-de-açúcar
- 5fator estimulante, incitador, excitante; acicate, incentivo
- 6ferrão com que picam a abelha e outros insetos
- 7aguilhada curta que os carreiros usam para tanger os bois
- 8bico ou ponta aguçada
- 9acúleo
- 10estímulo, incentivo
- 11irritação
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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Using “aguilhão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-G-U-I-L-H-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.