formosas
/foɾ.ˈmɔ.zəs/
The verdict
“formosas” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,976 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,976
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forma feminina plural de formoso.
Corpus desk
Index PT-formosas · formosas · Portuguese
formosas · rank #73,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,976
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH forra
Nearest frequency peer: forra (+1 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 “formosas”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- faringite
faringite
26,039 corpus weight
- fertilizar
fertilizar
26,033 corpus weight
- fisiologista
fisiologista
26,030 corpus weight
- formosas
formosas
26,025 corpus weight
- forra
forra
26,024 corpus weight
- fragmentar
fragmentar
26,023 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “formosas” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formosas |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /foɾ.ˈmɔ.zəs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “formosas” em português
Rare enough to double-check
formosas is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,976 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /foɾ.ˈmɔ.zəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "forma feminina plural de formoso.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for formosas in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 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 formosas, spelled F-O-R-M-O-S-A-S.
Definition
- 1forma feminina plural de formoso.
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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