feather
/ˈfɛ.ð̥ɚ/
The verdict
“feather” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,351 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,351
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - polido, lixado
Corpus desk
Index PT-feather · feather · Portuguese
feather · rank #76,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,351
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH felpudo
Nearest frequency peer: felpudo (+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 “feather”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- exotismo
exotismo
23,659 corpus weight
- eyeliner
eyeliner
23,656 corpus weight
- factível
factível
23,654 corpus weight
- feather
feather
23,650 corpus weight
- felpudo
felpudo
23,649 corpus weight
- fermi
fermi
23,647 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “feather” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feather |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈfɛ.ð̥ɚ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “feather” em português
Rare enough to double-check
feather is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,351 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈfɛ.ð̥ɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "polido, lixado".
No misspelling variants are generated for feather in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 feather, spelled F-E-A-T-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1polido, lixado
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feather appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
feather edge
Synonyms
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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