fortuito
/fuɾ.ˈtuj.tu/
The verdict
“fortuito” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,971 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,971
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que sucede por acaso; inesperado
Corpus desk
Index PT-fortuito · fortuito · Portuguese
fortuito · rank #60,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,971
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH Fett
Nearest frequency peer: Fett (-11 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 “fortuito”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- experimenta…
experimentalmente
39,053 corpus weight
- Fett
Fett
39,041 corpus weight
- fortuito
fortuito
39,030 corpus weight
- gosma
gosma
39,015 corpus weight
- gravitação
gravitação
39,011 corpus weight
- gusto
gusto
39,003 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fortuito” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fortuito |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /fuɾ.ˈtuj.tu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fortuito” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fortuito is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,971 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /fuɾ.ˈtuj.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que sucede por acaso; inesperado".
fortuito has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is fortuito, spelled F-O-R-T-U-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1que sucede por acaso; inesperado
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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