gilete
The verdict
“gilete” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,865 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,865
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lâmina de barbear
Corpus desk
Index PT-gilete · gilete · Portuguese
gilete · rank #68,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,865
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gastroenterite
Nearest frequency peer: gastroenterite (-7 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 “gilete”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- farmacológi…
farmacológicas
31,168 corpus weight
- fotocópia
fotocópia
31,156 corpus weight
- funcho
funcho
31,152 corpus weight
- gastroenter…
gastroenterite
31,143 corpus weight
- gilete
gilete
31,136 corpus weight
- guapo
guapo
31,121 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gilete” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gilete |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gilete” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gilete is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,865 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "lâmina de barbear".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gilete, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is gilete, spelled G-I-L-E-T-E.
Definition
- 1lâmina de barbear
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gilete appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A cocaína, batida com gilete na tampa da privada antes de ser cheirada (o que a galera chama de "caratê boliviano"), garantia o pique nas noitadas.
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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