fiado
/ˈfja.du/
The verdict
“fiado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,321 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,321
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que se fiou
Corpus desk
Index PT-fiado · fiado · Portuguese
fiado · rank #57,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,321
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH feitor
Nearest frequency peer: feitor (-3 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 “fiado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- 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
- fortificar
fortificar
42,669 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fiado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fiado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈfja.du/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fiado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fiado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,321 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈfja.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fiado in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is fiado, spelled F-I-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1que se fiou
- 2reduzido a fio tratando-se de matérias têxteis
- 3confiado
- 4cheio de confiança, fé ou crença
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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