fido
/ˈfiː.doː/
The verdict
“fido” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,214 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,214
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - confiar, ter confiança.
Corpus desk
Index PT-fido · fido · Portuguese
fido · rank #73,214 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,214
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fos
Nearest frequency peer: fos (+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 “fido”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- esquistosso…
esquistossomose
26,811 corpus weight
- estai
estai
26,810 corpus weight
- esti
esti
26,808 corpus weight
- fido
fido
26,787 corpus weight
- fos
fos
26,774 corpus weight
- fuxico
fuxico
26,764 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fido” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fido |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfiː.doː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fido” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fido is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,214 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈfiː.doː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "confiar, ter confiança.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fido in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is fido, spelled F-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1confiar, ter confiança.
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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