gatuno
The verdict
“gatuno” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,383 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,383
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que rouba ou furta:
Corpus desk
Index PT-gatuno · gatuno · Portuguese
gatuno · rank #76,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,383
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH goody
Nearest frequency peer: goody (+11 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 “gatuno”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- feather
feather
23,650 corpus weight
- felpudo
felpudo
23,649 corpus weight
- fermi
fermi
23,647 corpus weight
- fonologia
fonologia
23,638 corpus weight
- gatuno
gatuno
23,618 corpus weight
- goody
goody
23,607 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gatuno” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gatuno |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gatuno” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gatuno is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,383 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que rouba ou furta:".
gatuno doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is gatuno, spelled G-A-T-U-N-O.
Definition
- 1que rouba ou furta:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gatuno appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O fulano é gatuno!
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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