fos
/ˈfoʃ/
The verdict
“fos” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,227 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,227
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - podre, chinfrim, de péssima qualidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-fos · fos · Portuguese
fos · rank #73,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,227
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fuxico
Nearest frequency peer: fuxico (+10 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 “fos”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- esquistosso…
esquistossomose
26,811 corpus weight
- estai
estai
26,810 corpus weight
- esti
esti
26,808 corpus weight
- fido
fido
26,787 corpus weight
- fos
fos
26,774 corpus weight
- fuxico
fuxico
26,764 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fos” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈfoʃ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #73,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fos” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fos is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,227 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈfoʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "podre, chinfrim, de péssima qualidade".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fos, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 fos, spelled F-O-S.
Definition
- 1podre, chinfrim, de péssima qualidade
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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