parpalhão
/par.pa.'ʎaŋ/
The verdict
“parpalhão” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - codorniz, (Coturnix coturnix)
Corpus desk
Index PT-parpalhao · parpalhão · Portuguese
parpalhão · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parpalhão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /par.pa.'ʎaŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “parpalhão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
parpalhão is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /par.pa.'ʎaŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "codorniz, (Coturnix coturnix)".
parpalhão has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is parpalhão, spelled P-A-R-P-A-L-H-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1codorniz, (Coturnix coturnix)
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.