faiança
/faj.ɐ̃.ˈsɐ/
The verdict
“faiança” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,998 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,998
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forma de cerâmica branca, que possui uma massa cerâmica menos rica em caulim do que a porcelana e é associada a argilas mais plásticas
Corpus desk
Index PT-faianca · faiança · Portuguese
faiança · rank #70,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,998
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH falcatrua
Nearest frequency peer: falcatrua (+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 “faiança”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- escrúpulo
escrúpulo
29,037 corpus weight
- explodo
explodo
29,008 corpus weight
- faiança
faiança
29,003 corpus weight
- falcatrua
falcatrua
29,002 corpus weight
- flagranteme…
flagrantemente
28,994 corpus weight
- gaiato
gaiato
28,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “faiança” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faiança |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /faj.ɐ̃.ˈsɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “faiança” em português
Rare enough to double-check
faiança is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,998 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /faj.ɐ̃.ˈsɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "forma de cerâmica branca, que possui uma massa cerâmica menos rica em caulim do que a porcelana e é associada a argilas mais plásticas".
No misspelling variants are generated for faiança in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is faiança, spelled F-A-I-A-N-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1forma de cerâmica branca, que possui uma massa cerâmica menos rica em caulim do que a porcelana e é associada a argilas mais plásticas
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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