puxador
/pu.ʃɐ.ˈdoɾ/
The verdict
“puxador” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,961 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,961
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peça de madeira ou metal que afixada a uma porta ou gaveta serve de meio para abrí-las ou fechá-las.
Corpus desk
Index PT-puxador · puxador · Portuguese
puxador · rank #52,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,961
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH psiu
Nearest frequency peer: psiu (-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 “puxador”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ponderado
ponderado
47,060 corpus weight
- psiu
psiu
47,041 corpus weight
- puxador
puxador
47,040 corpus weight
- querubim
querubim
47,037 corpus weight
- rabeca
rabeca
47,035 corpus weight
- reapresenta…
reapresentação
47,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “puxador” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puxador |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pu.ʃɐ.ˈdoɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “puxador” em português
Rare enough to double-check
puxador is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,961 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pu.ʃɐ.ˈdoɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
puxador doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is puxador, spelled P-U-X-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1peça de madeira ou metal que afixada a uma porta ou gaveta serve de meio para abrí-las ou fechá-las.
- 2ladrão que rouba carro
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puxador appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
jornal Folha de São Paulo de 07 de agosto de 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20240814184720/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/cotidian/ff0708200001.htm
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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