glutão

noun

The verdict

“glutão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #82,920 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#82,920
frequency rank, Portuguese
521
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - quem come muito

Corpus desk

Index PT-glutao · glutão · Portuguese

glutão · rank #82,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #82,920
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 521
  • PHOTO-FINISH glasses

Nearest frequency peer: glasses (-1 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 “glutão”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “glutão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for glutão
PropertyValue
Headwordglutão
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#82,920
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “glutão” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).glutãocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “glasses” (#82,919), “geometricamente” (#82,912), “genitor” (#82,911). Entre 521 lemas com “G”, “glutão” fica em #82,920. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

glutão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #82,920 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for glutão in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is glutão, spelled G-L-U-T-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    quem come muito
  2. 2
    mamífero da família dos Mustelidae, ordem Carnivora

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how glutão appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O leitor fica então sabendo que Bóris é um glutão rústico, sessentão e invariavelmente corrigido pela interlocutora.

Synonyms

alarvelambe-pratoslimpa-pratoscarcaju

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glutão"?
"glutão" is spelled G-L-U-T-Ã-O.
What does "glutão" mean?
As a noun, "glutão" means: quem come muito
What language does "glutão" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "glutão", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list