fisgada

noun

The verdict

“fisgada” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,153 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,153
frequency rank, Portuguese
853
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dor rápida e forte; pontada

Corpus desk

Index PT-fisgada · fisgada · Portuguese

fisgada · rank #68,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,153
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 853
  • PHOTO-FINISH formativo

Nearest frequency peer: formativo (+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 “fisgada”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fisgada” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fisgada
PropertyValue
Headwordfisgada
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#68,153
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “fisgada” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).fisgadacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “formativo” (#68,155), “feirante” (#68,150), “fortíssimos” (#68,156). Entre 853 lemas com “F”, “fisgada” fica em #68,153. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fisgada is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,153 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dor rápida e forte; pontada".

fisgada has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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 fisgada, spelled F-I-S-G-A-D-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    dor rápida e forte; pontada

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how fisgada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Lançado pela direita, ele sentiu uma fisgada na coxa esquerda.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fisgada"?
"fisgada" is spelled F-I-S-G-A-D-A.
What does "fisgada" mean?
As a noun, "fisgada" means: dor rápida e forte; pontada
What language does "fisgada" come from?
"fisgada" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fisgada", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list