frizz

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “frizz” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for frizz
PropertyValue
Headwordfrizz
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#88,226
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “frizz” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.frizzcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “gaiteiro” (#88,237), “geminação” (#88,245), “etário” (#88,198). Entre 853 lemas com “F”, “frizz” fica em #88,226. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    ver frisado

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how frizz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. No mundo da Luna
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "frizz"?
"frizz" is spelled F-R-I-Z-Z.
What does "frizz" mean?
As a noun, "frizz" means: ver frisado
What language does "frizz" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "frizz", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list