enxaguar
/ẽ.ʃɐ.ˈɡwaɾ/
The verdict
“enxaguar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,796 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,796
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lavar em duas ou mais águas
Corpus desk
Index PT-enxaguar · enxaguar · Portuguese
enxaguar · rank #68,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,796
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH entristecer
Nearest frequency peer: entristecer (-2 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 “enxaguar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- either
either
31,224 corpus weight
- engineer
engineer
31,212 corpus weight
- enlatado
enlatado
31,211 corpus weight
- entristecer
entristecer
31,207 corpus weight
- enxaguar
enxaguar
31,205 corpus weight
- expatriado
expatriado
31,177 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “enxaguar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enxaguar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ẽ.ʃɐ.ˈɡwaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “enxaguar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
enxaguar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,796 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ẽ.ʃɐ.ˈɡwaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enxaguar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 enxaguar, spelled E-N-X-A-G-U-A-R.
Definition
- 1lavar em duas ou mais águas
- 2lavar o que já estava ensaboado
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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