garrote
/ɡɐ.ˈRɔ.tɨ/
The verdict
“garrote” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,950 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,950
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - touro jovem
Corpus desk
Index PT-garrote · garrote · Portuguese
garrote · rank #57,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,950
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH fresta
Nearest frequency peer: fresta (-6 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 “garrote”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ferrenho
ferrenho
42,071 corpus weight
- filologia
filologia
42,067 corpus weight
- fresta
fresta
42,057 corpus weight
- garrote
garrote
42,051 corpus weight
- glicogênio
glicogênio
42,045 corpus weight
- hug
hug
42,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “garrote” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garrote |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɐ.ˈRɔ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “garrote” em português
Rare enough to double-check
garrote is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,950 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɐ.ˈRɔ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "touro jovem".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for garrote, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 garrote, spelled G-A-R-R-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1touro jovem
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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