calejado
The verdict
“calejado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,550 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,550
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que tem calos, calosidades
Corpus desk
Index PT-calejado · calejado · Portuguese
calejado · rank #94,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,550
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cabriolet
Nearest frequency peer: cabriolet (-7 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 “calejado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- brejão
brejão
5,471 corpus weight
- cabriolet
cabriolet
5,458 corpus weight
- calejado
calejado
5,451 corpus weight
- candura
candura
5,442 corpus weight
- caninha
caninha
5,441 corpus weight
- cavilha
cavilha
5,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “calejado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calejado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “calejado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
calejado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,550 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for calejado, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is calejado, spelled C-A-L-E-J-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1que tem calos, calosidades
- 2que tem experiência, prática; experimentado
- 3que se tornou endurecido, pouco sensível; empedernido
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calejado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
É um vendedor calejado.
Era um indivíduo duro, calejado.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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