folhear
The verdict
“folhear” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,754 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,754
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - virar as folhas de uma encadernação
Corpus desk
Index PT-folhear · folhear · Portuguese
folhear · rank #78,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,754
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fonógrafo
Nearest frequency peer: fonógrafo (+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 “folhear”
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 “folhear” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folhear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “folhear” em português
Rare enough to double-check
folhear is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,754 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
folhear has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 folhear, spelled F-O-L-H-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1virar as folhas de uma encadernação
- 2cobrir de folhas de algum material
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how folhear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
folhear um livro
folhear uma aliança
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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