fishing
The verdict
“fishing” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,770 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,770
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pesqueiro, de pesca
Corpus desk
Index PT-fishing · fishing · Portuguese
fishing · rank #71,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,770
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fascículo
Nearest frequency peer: fascículo (-6 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 “fishing”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- expensive
expensive
28,245 corpus weight
- fascículo
fascículo
28,237 corpus weight
- fishing
fishing
28,231 corpus weight
- fluoreto
fluoreto
28,225 corpus weight
- forrar
forrar
28,219 corpus weight
- frontão
frontão
28,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fishing” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fishing |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fishing” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fishing is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,770 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pesqueiro, de pesca".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fishing, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 fishing, spelled F-I-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1pesqueiro, de pesca
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fishing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fishing establishment
Fishing expedition
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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