forquilha
/fuɾ.ˈki.ʎɐ/
The verdict
“forquilha” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,185 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,185
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequeno garfo de três pontas
Corpus desk
Index PT-forquilha · forquilha · Portuguese
forquilha · rank #52,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,185
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH furão
Nearest frequency peer: furão (+4 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 “forquilha”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fiambre
fiambre
47,825 corpus weight
- filosofar
filosofar
47,824 corpus weight
- fini
fini
47,822 corpus weight
- forquilha
forquilha
47,816 corpus weight
- furão
furão
47,812 corpus weight
- glande
glande
47,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “forquilha” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forquilha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fuɾ.ˈki.ʎɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “forquilha” em português
Rare enough to double-check
forquilha is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,185 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fuɾ.ˈki.ʎɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for forquilha, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is forquilha, spelled F-O-R-Q-U-I-L-H-A.
Definition
- 1pequeno garfo de três pontas
- 2forca, instrumento agrícola de dentes
- 3ramo de árvore ou arbusto que se bifurca com o formato da letra Y
- 4local do gol onde a trave de sustentação se encontra com a trave superior
- 5planta da família das gramíneas, nativa do Brasil
- 6verme nematódeo da família dos singamídeos
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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