frizz
The verdict
“frizz” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,226 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,226
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ver frisado
Corpus desk
Index PT-frizz · frizz · Portuguese
frizz · rank #88,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,226
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH gaiteiro
Nearest frequency peer: gaiteiro (+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 “frizz”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- escaldar
escaldar
11,817 corpus weight
- estalajadei…
estalajadeiro
11,811 corpus weight
- etário
etário
11,803 corpus weight
- frizz
frizz
11,775 corpus weight
- gaiteiro
gaiteiro
11,764 corpus weight
- geminação
geminação
11,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “frizz” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frizz |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “frizz” em português
Rare enough to double-check
frizz is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,226 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ver frisado".
Zero misspellings are on record for frizz in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 frizz, spelled F-R-I-Z-Z.
Definition
- 1ver frisado
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frizz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No mundo da Luna
Perto dela, sou um mamute, um zepelim, um rinoceronte gordo cheio de frizz no cabelo!
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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