faringe
/fɐ.ˈɾĩ.ʒɨ/
The verdict
“faringe” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,316 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,316
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cavidade entre a boca e a parte superior do esôfago
Corpus desk
Index PT-faringe · faringe · Portuguese
faringe · rank #57,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,316
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH feitor
Nearest frequency peer: feitor (+2 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 “faringe”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- esporão
esporão
42,700 corpus weight
- estorvo
estorvo
42,695 corpus weight
- evitável
evitável
42,691 corpus weight
- faringe
faringe
42,685 corpus weight
- feitor
feitor
42,683 corpus weight
- fiado
fiado
42,680 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “faringe” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faringe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɐ.ˈɾĩ.ʒɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “faringe” em português
Rare enough to double-check
faringe is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,316 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fɐ.ˈɾĩ.ʒɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cavidade entre a boca e a parte superior do esôfago".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faringe, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is faringe, spelled F-A-R-I-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1cavidade entre a boca e a parte superior do esôfago
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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