narguilé

noun

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The verdict

“narguilé” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,153 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,153
frequency rank, Portuguese
360
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cachimbo de água

Corpus desk

Index PT-narguile · narguilé · Portuguese

narguilé · rank #78,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,153
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 360
  • PHOTO-FINISH nhô

Nearest frequency peer: nhô (+3 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 “narguilé”

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for narguilé
PropertyValue
Headwordnarguilé
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#78,153
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “narguilé” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).narguilécai 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: “nhô” (#78,156), “motherfucker” (#78,142), “morfológico” (#78,141). Entre 360 lemas com “N”, “narguilé” fica em #78,153. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

narguilé is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,153 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cachimbo de água".

No misspelling variants are generated for narguilé in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is narguilé, spelled N-A-R-G-U-I-L-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    cachimbo de água

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 26 poetas hoje

This word in other languages

hookah(English)narguilé(Français)Shisha(Deutsch)

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 "narguilé"?
"narguilé" is spelled N-A-R-G-U-I-L-É.
What does "narguilé" mean?
As a noun, "narguilé" means: cachimbo de água
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

oficioso#78,172mambembe#78,107retalhar#78,274gigabyte#78,002

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list