frentista
The verdict
“frentista” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,760 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,760
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pessoa que trabalha nos postos de gasolina, geralmente abastecendo os veículos
Corpus desk
Index PT-frentista · frentista · Portuguese
frentista · rank #52,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,760
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH forragem
Nearest frequency peer: forragem (-2 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 “frentista”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- folículo
folículo
47,245 corpus weight
- forragem
forragem
47,243 corpus weight
- frentista
frentista
47,241 corpus weight
- fut
fut
47,238 corpus weight
- ganz
ganz
47,237 corpus weight
- genie
genie
47,234 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “frentista” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frentista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “frentista” em português
Rare enough to double-check
frentista is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,760 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pessoa que trabalha nos postos de gasolina, geralmente abastecendo os veículos".
frentista doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is frentista, spelled F-R-E-N-T-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1pessoa que trabalha nos postos de gasolina, geralmente abastecendo os veículos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frentista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cada CD custa entre R$ 10,00 e R$ 15,00, contou um frentista que pediu para não ser identificado.
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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