esfregado
The verdict
“esfregado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,062 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,062
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - serviço de esfregar
Corpus desk
Index PT-esfregado · esfregado · Portuguese
esfregado · rank #89,062 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,062
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH escuela
Nearest frequency peer: escuela (-3 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 “esfregado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- embolada
embolada
10,955 corpus weight
- escuela
escuela
10,942 corpus weight
- esfregado
esfregado
10,939 corpus weight
- espoir
espoir
10,934 corpus weight
- estival
estival
10,925 corpus weight
- esturjão
esturjão
10,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “esfregado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esfregado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “esfregado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
esfregado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,062 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "serviço de esfregar".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for esfregado, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is esfregado, spelled E-S-F-R-E-G-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1serviço de esfregar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how esfregado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hoje é dia de esfregados.
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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