garfo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,586
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
garfo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: utensílio de dois ou mais dentes que faz parte do talher Often confused with gato and giro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garfo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for garfo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #15,586 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for garfo, with forms such as "agrfo", "gafro", and "garffo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gato", "giro", "grão", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is garfo, spelled G-A-R-F-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1utensílio de dois ou mais dentes que faz parte do talher
- 2forquilha das rodas da bicicleta
- 3forquilha para separar a palha do grão nas eiras
- 4nas enxertias, a parte que se fixa ao cavalo
- 5dominação dos enxames emigrantes da colmeia por excesso de população
- 6fancho
- 7pente em formato de forquilha (geralmente com 4 dentes) usado para ouriçar o cabelo
- 8tipo de arpão com 3 dentes
- 9tipo de instrumento de tortura
- 10ataque de uma peça (geralmente o cavalo) a duas peças ao mesmo tempo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agrfo,gafro,garffo,garof,garrfo,ggarfo,grafo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for garfo
Misspelling Variants of "garfo"
Frequency rank: #15,586 in Portuguese
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