fagote
/fɐ.ˈɡɔ.tɨ/
The verdict
“fagote” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,148 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,148
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instrumento musical da família dos sopros
Corpus desk
Index PT-fagote · fagote · Portuguese
fagote · rank #77,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,148
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fetichismo
Nearest frequency peer: fetichismo (+5 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 “fagote”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- espertalhão
espertalhão
22,871 corpus weight
- estivador
estivador
22,865 corpus weight
- estruturante
estruturante
22,862 corpus weight
- fagote
fagote
22,853 corpus weight
- fetichismo
fetichismo
22,848 corpus weight
- finança
finança
22,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fagote” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fagote |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɐ.ˈɡɔ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fagote” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fagote is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,148 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fɐ.ˈɡɔ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "instrumento musical da família dos sopros".
Zero misspellings are on record for fagote in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 fagote, spelled F-A-G-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1instrumento musical da família dos sopros
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fagote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Já Abner da Silva Pinto, de 16 anos, chegou ao fagote "um pouco" por sugestão do pai, que toca tuba.
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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