focinheira
/fu.si.ˈɲɐj.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“focinheira” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,749 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,749
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - equipamento colocado ao redor do focinho do cão
Corpus desk
Index PT-focinheira · focinheira · Portuguese
focinheira · rank #78,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,749
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH flâmula
Nearest frequency peer: flâmula (-1 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 “focinheira”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fecundo
fecundo
21,262 corpus weight
- flâmula
flâmula
21,253 corpus weight
- focinheira
focinheira
21,252 corpus weight
- folhear
folhear
21,247 corpus weight
- fonógrafo
fonógrafo
21,245 corpus weight
- frugal
frugal
21,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “focinheira” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | focinheira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fu.si.ˈɲɐj.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “focinheira” em português
Rare enough to double-check
focinheira is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,749 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fu.si.ˈɲɐj.ɾɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "equipamento colocado ao redor do focinho do cão".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for focinheira, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is focinheira, spelled F-O-C-I-N-H-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1equipamento colocado ao redor do focinho do cão
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how focinheira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se o dono for flagrado circulando em local público, com cachorro sem coleira, corrente e focinheira, terá o animal apreendido e deverá pagar multa de R$ 100.
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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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