esfregão
/eʃ.fɾe.ˈgɐ̃w/
The verdict
“esfregão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #90,024 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,024
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rodilha ou pano de esfregar
Corpus desk
Index PT-esfregao · esfregão · Portuguese
esfregão · rank #90,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,024
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esportividade
Nearest frequency peer: esportividade (+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 “esfregão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- dístico
dístico
10,016 corpus weight
- embolado
embolado
10,006 corpus weight
- esfregão
esfregão
9,977 corpus weight
- esportivida…
esportividade
9,974 corpus weight
- expected
expected
9,946 corpus weight
- fabric
fabric
9,943 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “esfregão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esfregão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /eʃ.fɾe.ˈgɐ̃w/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “esfregão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
esfregão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #90,024 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /eʃ.fɾe.ˈgɐ̃w/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for esfregão in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is esfregão, spelled E-S-F-R-E-G-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1rodilha ou pano de esfregar
- 2pano próprio para a esfrega
This word in other languages
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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