fole
/ˈfɔ.lɨ/
The verdict
“fole” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,089 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,089
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aparelho que serve para assoprar, impulsionando o ar por um orifício ao ser apertada a sua estrutura flexível de couro ou outro material
Corpus desk
Index PT-fole · fole · Portuguese
fole · rank #51,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,089
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fifty
Nearest frequency peer: fifty (-4 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 “fole”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- etílico
etílico
48,931 corpus weight
- eus
eus
48,930 corpus weight
- felicitar
felicitar
48,919 corpus weight
- fifty
fifty
48,916 corpus weight
- fole
fole
48,912 corpus weight
- goiabada
goiabada
48,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fole” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fole |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɔ.lɨ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fole” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fole is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,089 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɔ.lɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fole, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is fole, spelled F-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1aparelho que serve para assoprar, impulsionando o ar por um orifício ao ser apertada a sua estrutura flexível de couro ou outro material
- 2parte de um instrumento musical onde o ar que produz o som é comprimido
- 3saco para transportar ao ombro
- 4parte de um tecido ou roupa que sai fazendo uma forma redonda
- 5qualquer forma em forma de saco redondo
- 6barriga
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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