frontão
/fɾõ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“frontão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,786 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,786
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - adorno do topo de portas, janelas ou entradas de edifícios
Corpus desk
Index PT-frontao · frontão · Portuguese
frontão · rank #71,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,786
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH forrar
Nearest frequency peer: forrar (-4 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 “frontão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fascículo
fascículo
28,237 corpus weight
- fishing
fishing
28,231 corpus weight
- fluoreto
fluoreto
28,225 corpus weight
- forrar
forrar
28,219 corpus weight
- frontão
frontão
28,215 corpus weight
- glandular
glandular
28,204 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “frontão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frontão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɾõ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “frontão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
frontão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,786 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fɾõ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "adorno do topo de portas, janelas ou entradas de edifícios".
No misspelling variants are generated for frontão in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 frontão, spelled F-R-O-N-T-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1adorno do topo de portas, janelas ou entradas de edifícios
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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