esguicho
/iʒ.ˈɡi.ʃu/
The verdict
“esguicho” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,772 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,772
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jacto de um líquido
Corpus desk
Index PT-esguicho · esguicho · Portuguese
esguicho · rank #83,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,772
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH escorregão
Nearest frequency peer: escorregão (-1 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 “esguicho”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- embaixatriz
embaixatriz
16,251 corpus weight
- entorpecer
entorpecer
16,239 corpus weight
- escora
escora
16,231 corpus weight
- escorregão
escorregão
16,230 corpus weight
- esguicho
esguicho
16,229 corpus weight
- estupefato
estupefato
16,213 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “esguicho” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esguicho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʒ.ˈɡi.ʃu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “esguicho” em português
Rare enough to double-check
esguicho is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,772 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /iʒ.ˈɡi.ʃu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
esguicho has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 esguicho, spelled E-S-G-U-I-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1jacto de um líquido
- 2esguichadela
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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