funileiro

noun

The verdict

“funileiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,348 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,348
frequency rank, Portuguese
853
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - profissional metalúrgico que trabalha com a confecção ou reparo de peças em chapas metálicas (como por exemplo folha-de-flandres, aço galvanizado, alumínio, chapas de ferro em geral)

Corpus desk

Index PT-funileiro · funileiro · Portuguese

funileiro · rank #87,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,348
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 853
  • PHOTO-FINISH fungicida

Nearest frequency peer: fungicida (-1 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 “funileiro”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for funileiro
PropertyValue
Headwordfunileiro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#87,348
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “funileiro” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).funileirocai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “fungicida” (#87,347), “frontispício” (#87,345), “fisga” (#87,330). Entre 853 lemas com “F”, “funileiro” fica em #87,348. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

funileiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,348 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "profissional metalúrgico que trabalha com a confecção ou reparo de peças em chapas metálicas (como por exemplo folha-de-flandres, aço galvanizado, alumínio, chapas de ferro em geral)".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for funileiro, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is funileiro, spelled F-U-N-I-L-E-I-R-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    profissional metalúrgico que trabalha com a confecção ou reparo de peças em chapas metálicas (como por exemplo folha-de-flandres, aço galvanizado, alumínio, chapas de ferro em geral)

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Dono da Oficina Onix Import, ele, de cara, faz questão de deixar claro: não é funileiro, mas pintor.

Synonyms

bate-chapaflandeirofolheirolanterneirolatoeiro

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "funileiro"?
"funileiro" is spelled F-U-N-I-L-E-I-R-O.
What does "funileiro" mean?
As a noun, "funileiro" means: profissional metalúrgico que trabalha com a confecção ou reparo de peças em chapas metálicas (como por exemplo folha-de-flandres, aço galvanizado, alumínio, chapas de ferro em geral)
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list