lixeiro
/li.ˈʃɐj.ɾu/
The verdict
“lixeiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,502 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,502
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pessoa encarregada de recolher o lixo
Corpus desk
Index PT-lixeiro · lixeiro · Portuguese
lixeiro · rank #54,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,502
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH linhaça
Nearest frequency peer: linhaça (-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 “lixeiro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Iraq
Iraq
45,527 corpus weight
- labuta
labuta
45,513 corpus weight
- linhaça
linhaça
45,500 corpus weight
- lixeiro
lixeiro
45,499 corpus weight
- Lombardo
Lombardo
45,497 corpus weight
- maquininha
maquininha
45,485 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “lixeiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lixeiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /li.ˈʃɐj.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lixeiro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lixeiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,502 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /li.ˈʃɐj.ɾu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pessoa encarregada de recolher o lixo".
lixeiro doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is lixeiro, spelled L-I-X-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1pessoa encarregada de recolher o lixo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lixeiro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Até dois anos atrás, Solonei era lixeiro em Penápolis, no interior paulista.
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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