fonologia
/fu.nu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/
The verdict
“fonologia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,363 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,363
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estudo dos sons elementares e fundamentais das línguas, das modificações desses sons representados por vocábulos, e da correta pronúncia destes
Corpus desk
Index PT-fonologia · fonologia · Portuguese
fonologia · rank #76,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,363
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fermi
Nearest frequency peer: fermi (-9 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 “fonologia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- eyeliner
eyeliner
23,656 corpus weight
- factível
factível
23,654 corpus weight
- feather
feather
23,650 corpus weight
- felpudo
felpudo
23,649 corpus weight
- fermi
fermi
23,647 corpus weight
- fonologia
fonologia
23,638 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fonologia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonologia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fu.nu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fonologia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fonologia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,363 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fu.nu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "estudo dos sons elementares e fundamentais das línguas, das modificações desses sons representados por vocábulos, e da correta pronúncia destes".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fonologia, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is fonologia, spelled F-O-N-O-L-O-G-I-A.
Definition
- 1estudo dos sons elementares e fundamentais das línguas, das modificações desses sons representados por vocábulos, e da correta pronúncia destes
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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