gaiteiro
/ɡaj.ˈtɐj.ɾu/
The verdict
“gaiteiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,237 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,237
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - músico que toca gaita
Corpus desk
Index PT-gaiteiro · gaiteiro · Portuguese
gaiteiro · rank #88,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,237
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH geminação
Nearest frequency peer: geminação (+8 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 “gaiteiro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- estalajadei…
estalajadeiro
11,811 corpus weight
- etário
etário
11,803 corpus weight
- frizz
frizz
11,775 corpus weight
- gaiteiro
gaiteiro
11,764 corpus weight
- geminação
geminação
11,756 corpus weight
- immediate
immediate
11,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gaiteiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaiteiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡaj.ˈtɐj.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gaiteiro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gaiteiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,237 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡaj.ˈtɐj.ɾu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "músico que toca gaita".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gaiteiro, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is gaiteiro, spelled G-A-I-T-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1músico que toca gaita
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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