linguado
/łĩˈgwadu/
The verdict
“linguado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,711 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,711
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - designação extensiva a peixes com corpo achatado e alongado
Corpus desk
Index PT-linguado · linguado · Portuguese
linguado · rank #51,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,711
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH manjar
Nearest frequency peer: manjar (+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 “linguado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Kino
Kino
48,300 corpus weight
- laboratorio
laboratorio
48,297 corpus weight
- linguado
linguado
48,290 corpus weight
- manjar
manjar
48,284 corpus weight
- matavam
matavam
48,279 corpus weight
- memorização
memorização
48,274 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “linguado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | linguado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /łĩˈgwadu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “linguado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
linguado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,711 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /łĩˈgwadu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
linguado doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 linguado, spelled L-I-N-G-U-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1designação extensiva a peixes com corpo achatado e alongado
- 2língua grande
- 3conversa ou linguagem inconveniente
- 4beijo entre bocas, quando se usa a língua
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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