confrade
/kõ.ˈfɾa.dɨ/
The verdict
“confrade” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #90,841 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,841
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - membro de uma confraria
Corpus desk
Index PT-confrade · confrade · Portuguese
confrade · rank #90,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,841
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH congruente
Nearest frequency peer: congruente (+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 “confrade”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- clockwork
clockwork
9,180 corpus weight
- conclamar
conclamar
9,164 corpus weight
- confrade
confrade
9,160 corpus weight
- congruente
congruente
9,159 corpus weight
- cátodo
cátodo
9,129 corpus weight
- danar
danar
9,127 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “confrade” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confrade |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kõ.ˈfɾa.dɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “confrade” em português
Rare enough to double-check
confrade is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #90,841 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kõ.ˈfɾa.dɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for confrade in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 confrade, spelled C-O-N-F-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1membro de uma confraria
- 2correligionário
- 3colega
- 4companheiro
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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