gandula
The verdict
“gandula” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,611 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,611
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - repositor de bola em jogo
Corpus desk
Index PT-gandula · gandula · Portuguese
gandula · rank #85,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,611
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gentlemen
Nearest frequency peer: gentlemen (+5 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 “gandula”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fidedigno
fidedigno
14,414 corpus weight
- finura
finura
14,412 corpus weight
- fraturar
fraturar
14,397 corpus weight
- gandula
gandula
14,390 corpus weight
- gentlemen
gentlemen
14,385 corpus weight
- gnosticismo
gnosticismo
14,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gandula” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gandula |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gandula” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gandula is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,611 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "repositor de bola em jogo".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gandula in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is gandula, spelled G-A-N-D-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1repositor de bola em jogo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gandula appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As belas gandulas são um atrativo a mais para a audiência masculina nas transmissões de TV.
Synonyms
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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