fotovoltaico
The verdict
“fotovoltaico” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,720 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,720
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo à conversão da luz em eletricidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-fotovoltaico · fotovoltaico · Portuguese
fotovoltaico · rank #84,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,720
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fotomontagem
Nearest frequency peer: fotomontagem (-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 “fotovoltaico”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- felicitação
felicitação
15,305 corpus weight
- fiscalidade
fiscalidade
15,295 corpus weight
- fogareiro
fogareiro
15,289 corpus weight
- fotomontagem
fotomontagem
15,282 corpus weight
- fotovoltaico
fotovoltaico
15,281 corpus weight
- galhofa
galhofa
15,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fotovoltaico” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fotovoltaico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #84,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fotovoltaico” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fotovoltaico is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,720 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "relativo à conversão da luz em eletricidade".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fotovoltaico in our index, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is fotovoltaico, spelled F-O-T-O-V-O-L-T-A-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1relativo à conversão da luz em eletricidade
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fotovoltaico appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«O efeito fotovoltaico permite a conversão direta da luz solar em eletricidade através de células de semicondutores.»
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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