estopa
/iʃ.ˈto.pɐ/
The verdict
“estopa” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,331 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,331
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - linho grosso que não passa pelo sedeiro
Corpus desk
Index PT-estopa · estopa · Portuguese
estopa · rank #76,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,331
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH estoniano
Nearest frequency peer: estoniano (-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 “estopa”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- estoniano
estoniano
23,671 corpus weight
- estopa
estopa
23,670 corpus weight
- estrôncio
estrôncio
23,666 corpus weight
- exotismo
exotismo
23,659 corpus weight
- eyeliner
eyeliner
23,656 corpus weight
- factível
factível
23,654 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “estopa” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estopa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.ˈto.pɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “estopa” em português
Rare enough to double-check
estopa is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,331 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /iʃ.ˈto.pɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "linho grosso que não passa pelo sedeiro".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for estopa, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is estopa, spelled E-S-T-O-P-A.
Definition
- 1linho grosso que não passa pelo sedeiro
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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