cutelo
/ku.ˈtɛ.lu/
The verdict
“cutelo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,394 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,394
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - faca em forma de crescente própria para cortar ossos, usada pelos talhantes
Corpus desk
Index PT-cutelo · cutelo · Portuguese
cutelo · rank #65,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,394
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH crase
Nearest frequency peer: crase (-9 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 “cutelo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- convidativo
convidativo
34,625 corpus weight
- corista
corista
34,621 corpus weight
- crase
crase
34,616 corpus weight
- cutelo
cutelo
34,607 corpus weight
- desandar
desandar
34,590 corpus weight
- desintoxicar
desintoxicar
34,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cutelo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cutelo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ku.ˈtɛ.lu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cutelo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cutelo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,394 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ku.ˈtɛ.lu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "faca em forma de crescente própria para cortar ossos, usada pelos talhantes".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cutelo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cutelo, spelled C-U-T-E-L-O.
Definition
- 1faca em forma de crescente própria para cortar ossos, usada pelos talhantes
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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