fresta
/ˈfɾɛʃ.tɐ/
The verdict
“fresta” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,944 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,944
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abertura estreita em parede, cortina, etc
Corpus desk
Index PT-fresta · fresta · Portuguese
fresta · rank #57,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,944
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH garrote
Nearest frequency peer: garrote (+6 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 “fresta”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- esguio
esguio
42,087 corpus weight
- ferrenho
ferrenho
42,071 corpus weight
- filologia
filologia
42,067 corpus weight
- fresta
fresta
42,057 corpus weight
- garrote
garrote
42,051 corpus weight
- glicogênio
glicogênio
42,045 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fresta” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fresta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɾɛʃ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fresta” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fresta is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,944 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɾɛʃ.tɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "abertura estreita em parede, cortina, etc".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fresta, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is fresta, spelled F-R-E-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1abertura estreita em parede, cortina, etc
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fresta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Espiando pela fresta na porta, viu uma jovem de avental branco e dois homens que pareciam médicos.
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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