gaiato
/gaj.ˈa.tu/
The verdict
“gaiato” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,020 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,020
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - travesso
Corpus desk
Index PT-gaiato · gaiato · Portuguese
gaiato · rank #71,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,020
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH flagrantemente
Nearest frequency peer: flagrantemente (-13 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 “gaiato”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- explodo
explodo
29,008 corpus weight
- faiança
faiança
29,003 corpus weight
- falcatrua
falcatrua
29,002 corpus weight
- flagranteme…
flagrantemente
28,994 corpus weight
- gaiato
gaiato
28,981 corpus weight
- hive
hive
28,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gaiato” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaiato |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /gaj.ˈa.tu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gaiato” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gaiato is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,020 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /gaj.ˈa.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for gaiato in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is gaiato, spelled G-A-I-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1travesso
- 2malicioso
- 3brincalhão
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gaiato appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
26 poetas hoje
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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