lugarejo

noun

The verdict

“lugarejo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,955 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,955
frequency rank, Portuguese
581
“L” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequeno povoado

Corpus desk

Index PT-lugarejo · lugarejo · Portuguese

lugarejo · rank #66,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,955
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 581
  • PHOTO-FINISH lituano

Nearest frequency peer: lituano (-4 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 “lugarejo”

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for lugarejo
PropertyValue
Headwordlugarejo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#66,955
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “lugarejo” em português

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

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

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “lituano” (#66,951), “mehr” (#66,976), “Ket” (#66,927). Entre 581 lemas com “L”, “lugarejo” fica em #66,955. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

lugarejo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,955 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pequeno povoado".

Zero misspellings are on record for lugarejo 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 typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is lugarejo, spelled L-U-G-A-R-E-J-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    pequeno povoado

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. O filme de Matheus Nachtergaele lança seus personagens desgarrados nos confins da Amazônia, num lugarejo que ainda faz parte da selva...

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 "lugarejo"?
"lugarejo" is spelled L-U-G-A-R-E-J-O.
What does "lugarejo" mean?
As a noun, "lugarejo" means: pequeno povoado
What language does "lugarejo" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list