folículo
/fu.ˈli.ku.lu/
The verdict
“folículo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,756 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,756
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - folha ou lâmina de reduzidas dimensões.
Corpus desk
Index PT-foliculo · folículo · Portuguese
folículo · rank #52,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,756
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH forragem
Nearest frequency peer: forragem (+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 “folículo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- filmografia
filmografia
47,253 corpus weight
- fingido
fingido
47,252 corpus weight
- folículo
folículo
47,245 corpus weight
- forragem
forragem
47,243 corpus weight
- frentista
frentista
47,241 corpus weight
- fut
fut
47,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “folículo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folículo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fu.ˈli.ku.lu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “folículo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
folículo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,756 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fu.ˈli.ku.lu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
folículo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is folículo, spelled F-O-L-Í-C-U-L-O.
Definition
- 1folha ou lâmina de reduzidas dimensões.
- 2folhelho
- 3cripta, pequeno saco na pele ou mucosa, com função secretora
- 4vesícula no ovário que contém o óvulo e líquido
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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