effort
/ˈɛfət/
The verdict
“effort” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,689 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,689
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - esforço
Corpus desk
Index PT-effort · effort · Portuguese
effort · rank #74,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,689
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH eats
Nearest frequency peer: eats (-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 “effort”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desfloresta…
desflorestamento
25,350 corpus weight
- desovar
desovar
25,347 corpus weight
- eats
eats
25,319 corpus weight
- effort
effort
25,312 corpus weight
- endereçar
endereçar
25,299 corpus weight
- enervar
enervar
25,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “effort” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effort |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛfət/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “effort” em português
Rare enough to double-check
effort is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,689 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɛfət/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "esforço".
No generated misspelling entries exist for effort in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 effort, spelled E-F-F-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1esforço
Synonyms
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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