fuzil
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,148
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
fuzil is aPortuguesenoun. It means: peça de metal com que se atritava uma pederneira (por exemplo, sílex) para produzir centelhas Often confused with fui and fil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuzil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fuzil is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #14,148 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fuzil, with forms such as "ffuzil", "fuizl", and "fuzill". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "fui", "fil", "full", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is fuzil, spelled F-U-Z-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1peça de metal com que se atritava uma pederneira (por exemplo, sílex) para produzir centelhas
- 2golpe sofrido por forte emoção
- 3o mesmo que relâmpago (clarão repentino)
- 4cada um dos elos de metal de uma corrente
- 5vínculo
- 6aro de ferro que prende à tábua de arremate a serra grande dos serradores
- 7argola de metal que prende a lâmina do enxó ao cabo
- 8instrumento em forma de estoque, com punho e geralmente sem fio de corte, que serve para amolar facas e facões
- 9isqueiro de chifre de boi; binga
- 10nome dos ossos do antebraço e da perna
- 11arma portátil de cano comprido; espécie de carabina; espingarda
- 12(Regionalismo: Portugal) elo da amarra de navio
- 13parte achatada da haste do anzol onde se fixa a linha por meio do estrovo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffuzil,fuizl,fuzill,fuzli,fuzzil,fzuil,ufzil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fuzil
Misspelling Variants of "fuzil"
Frequency rank: #14,148 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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