aguilhão
/ɐ.ɡi.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“aguilhão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,013 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,013
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ponta de ferro da aguilhada - perfurante
Corpus desk
Index PT-aguilhao · aguilhão · Portuguese
aguilhão · rank #87,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,013
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH afirmativamen…
Nearest frequency peer: afirmativamente (-3 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 “aguilhão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- adder
adder
12,996 corpus weight
- afirmativam…
afirmativamente
12,991 corpus weight
- aguilhão
aguilhão
12,988 corpus weight
- alienista
alienista
12,981 corpus weight
- alucinar
alucinar
12,977 corpus weight
- amorfo
amorfo
12,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “aguilhão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “aguilhão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
aguilhão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,013 among 1,900 “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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