filó
/fiˈlɔ/
The verdict
“filó” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,749 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,749
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tecido fino e transparente, usado em véus, cortinados, acabamento de vestidos, saiotes de balé etc.
Corpus desk
Index PT-filo · filó · Portuguese
filó · rank #59,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,749
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fiabilidade
Nearest frequency peer: fiabilidade (-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 “filó”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- extirpar
extirpar
40,267 corpus weight
- faris
faris
40,263 corpus weight
- farmacológi…
farmacológico
40,262 corpus weight
- fiabilidade
fiabilidade
40,254 corpus weight
- filó
filó
40,252 corpus weight
- fou
fou
40,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “filó” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filó |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fiˈlɔ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “filó” em português
Rare enough to double-check
filó is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,749 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fiˈlɔ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for filó, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is filó, spelled F-I-L-Ó.
Definition
- 1tecido fino e transparente, usado em véus, cortinados, acabamento de vestidos, saiotes de balé etc.
- 2a rede do gol
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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