feirão
/fei.'ɾoŋ/
The verdict
“feirão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,174 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,174
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - feirão, mercado ou pequena feira
Corpus desk
Index PT-feirao · feirão · Portuguese
feirão · rank #64,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH figa
Nearest frequency peer: figa (+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 “feirão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- exortar
exortar
35,835 corpus weight
- expelido
expelido
35,834 corpus weight
- extensível
extensível
35,833 corpus weight
- feirão
feirão
35,827 corpus weight
- figa
figa
35,825 corpus weight
- folgar
folgar
35,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “feirão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feirão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fei.'ɾoŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “feirão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
feirão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,174 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fei.'ɾoŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for feirão in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is feirão, spelled F-E-I-R-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1feirão, mercado ou pequena feira
- 2infrequentemente, feira maior
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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