fagote
/fɐ.ˈɡɔ.tɨ/
The verdict
“fagote” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #77,148 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #77,148
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - instrumento musical da família dos sopros
| 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) |
Where “fagote” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fagote is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fɐ.ˈɡɔ.tɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #77,148 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “fagote”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is F-A-G-O-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /fɐ.ˈɡɔ.tɨ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.