linfa
/ˈlĩ.fɐ/
The verdict
“linfa” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,885 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,885
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - líquido que circula nos vasos linfáticos
Corpus desk
Index PT-linfa · linfa · Portuguese
linfa · rank #71,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,885
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH libidinoso
Nearest frequency peer: libidinoso (-5 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 “linfa”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- interlúdio
interlúdio
28,155 corpus weight
- lapiseira
lapiseira
28,130 corpus weight
- libidinoso
libidinoso
28,121 corpus weight
- linfa
linfa
28,116 corpus weight
- Meer
Meer
28,092 corpus weight
- Mileto
Mileto
28,086 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “linfa” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | linfa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlĩ.fɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “linfa” em português
Rare enough to double-check
linfa is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,885 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlĩ.fɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "líquido que circula nos vasos linfáticos".
No generated misspelling entries exist for linfa in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 linfa, spelled L-I-N-F-A.
Definition
- 1líquido que circula nos vasos linfáticos
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.
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