forra
/'fo.ra/
The verdict
“forra” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,977 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,977
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diz-se da fêmea doméstica que não está prenhada
Corpus desk
Index PT-forra · forra · Portuguese
forra · rank #73,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,977
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH formosas
Nearest frequency peer: formosas (-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 “forra”
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 “forra” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /'fo.ra/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “forra” em português
Rare enough to double-check
forra is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,977 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /'fo.ra/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "diz-se da fêmea doméstica que não está prenhada".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for forra, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is forra, spelled F-O-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1diz-se da fêmea doméstica que não está prenhada
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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