fonógrafo
The verdict
“fonógrafo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,756 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,756
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - antigo aparelho que reproduzia sons gravados em cilindros ou discos metálicos
Corpus desk
Index PT-fonografo · fonógrafo · Portuguese
fonógrafo · rank #78,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,756
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH folhear
Nearest frequency peer: folhear (-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 “fonógrafo”
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 “fonógrafo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonógrafo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fonógrafo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fonógrafo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,756 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "antigo aparelho que reproduzia sons gravados em cilindros ou discos metálicos".
No misspelling variants are generated for fonógrafo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 fonógrafo, spelled F-O-N-Ó-G-R-A-F-O.
Definition
- 1antigo aparelho que reproduzia sons gravados em cilindros ou discos metálicos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fonógrafo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eram as senhoras que desejavam ouvir no fonógrafo uma ária da Patti!
This word in other languages
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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