fuego
[ˈfwe.ɰo]
The verdict
“fuego” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,131 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,131
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fogo (ordem para disparar uma arma)
Corpus desk
Index PT-fuego · fuego · Portuguese
fuego · rank #56,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,131
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH Frédéric
Nearest frequency peer: Frédéric (-3 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 “fuego”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- federativo
federativo
43,886 corpus weight
- fraterno
fraterno
43,875 corpus weight
- Frédéric
Frédéric
43,873 corpus weight
- fuego
fuego
43,870 corpus weight
- glicerina
glicerina
43,856 corpus weight
- hepático
hepático
43,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fuego” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuego |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈfwe.ɰo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fuego” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fuego is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,131 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [ˈfwe.ɰo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fogo (ordem para disparar uma arma)".
fuego doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is fuego, spelled F-U-E-G-O.
Definition
- 1fogo (ordem para disparar uma arma)
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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