fuzz
/fʌz/
The verdict
“fuzz” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,198 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,198
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fiapo (em tecidos ou frutas)
Corpus desk
Index PT-fuzz · fuzz · Portuguese
fuzz · rank #64,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,198
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH furtivamente
Nearest frequency peer: furtivamente (-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 “fuzz”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- feirão
feirão
35,827 corpus weight
- figa
figa
35,825 corpus weight
- folgar
folgar
35,819 corpus weight
- frutificar
frutificar
35,808 corpus weight
- furtivamente
furtivamente
35,804 corpus weight
- fuzz
fuzz
35,803 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fuzz” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuzz |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fʌz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fuzz” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fuzz is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,198 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fʌz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fiapo (em tecidos ou frutas)".
Zero misspellings are on record for fuzz in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 fuzz, spelled F-U-Z-Z.
Definition
- 1fiapo (em tecidos ou frutas)
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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