figa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#64,176
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
figa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pequeno amuleto, na forma de um mão fechada, com o polegar entre os dedos indicador e médio, usado supersticiosamente para resguardo contra malefícios, doenças, mau-olhado, etc Pronounced /ˈfi.ɡɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | figa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfi.ɡɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for figa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfi.ɡɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #64,176 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for figa in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is figa, spelled F-I-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pequeno amuleto, na forma de um mão fechada, com o polegar entre os dedos indicador e médio, usado supersticiosamente para resguardo contra malefícios, doenças, mau-olhado, etc
- 2sinal que se faz com os dedos indicador e médio, pondo-os entrelaçados ou cruzados; esconjuro
Frequency rank: #64,176 in Portuguese
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