enxuto
/ẽ.ˈʃu.tu/
The verdict
“enxuto” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,922 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,922
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - seco
Corpus desk
Index PT-enxuto · enxuto · Portuguese
enxuto · rank #73,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,922
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esquadro
Nearest frequency peer: esquadro (+13 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 “enxuto”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- earn
earn
26,106 corpus weight
- emparelhame…
emparelhamento
26,101 corpus weight
- enxuto
enxuto
26,079 corpus weight
- esquadro
esquadro
26,066 corpus weight
- evasiva
evasiva
26,058 corpus weight
- faina
faina
26,046 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “enxuto” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enxuto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ẽ.ˈʃu.tu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “enxuto” em português
Rare enough to double-check
enxuto is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,922 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ẽ.ˈʃu.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enxuto, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is enxuto, spelled E-N-X-U-T-O.
Definition
- 1seco
- 2que enxugou
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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