galhofa
/ɡɐ.ˈʎɔ.fɐ/
The verdict
“galhofa” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,730 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,730
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo galhofar
Corpus desk
Index PT-galhofa · galhofa · Portuguese
galhofa · rank #84,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,730
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH fotovoltaico
Nearest frequency peer: fotovoltaico (-10 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 “galhofa”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fiscalidade
fiscalidade
15,295 corpus weight
- fogareiro
fogareiro
15,289 corpus weight
- fotomontagem
fotomontagem
15,282 corpus weight
- fotovoltaico
fotovoltaico
15,281 corpus weight
- galhofa
galhofa
15,271 corpus weight
- gracejo
gracejo
15,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “galhofa” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galhofa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡɐ.ˈʎɔ.fɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “galhofa” em português
Rare enough to double-check
galhofa is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,730 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɡɐ.ˈʎɔ.fɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for galhofa, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is galhofa, spelled G-A-L-H-O-F-A.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo galhofar
- 2segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo do verbo galhofar
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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