cutelo
/ku.ˈtɛ.lu/
The verdict
“cutelo” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #65,394 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,394
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - faca em forma de crescente própria para cortar ossos, usada pelos talhantes
| 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) |
Where “cutelo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cutelo is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ku.ˈtɛ.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #65,394 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “cutelo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-U-T-E-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ku.ˈtɛ.lu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.