fatela
/fɐ.ˈtɛ.lɐ/
The verdict
“fatela” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #82,069 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,069
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de mau gosto, de má qualidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-fatela · fatela · Portuguese
fatela · rank #82,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,069
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fitar
Nearest frequency peer: fitar (+13 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 “fatela”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- esporro
esporro
17,949 corpus weight
- espumoso
espumoso
17,948 corpus weight
- fatela
fatela
17,932 corpus weight
- fitar
fitar
17,919 corpus weight
- flagelação
flagelação
17,916 corpus weight
- fodões
fodões
17,912 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fatela” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fatela |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /fɐ.ˈtɛ.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fatela” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fatela is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #82,069 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /fɐ.ˈtɛ.lɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "de mau gosto, de má qualidade".
No misspelling variants are generated for fatela in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is fatela, spelled F-A-T-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1de mau gosto, de má qualidade
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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