rafale
\ʁa.fal\
The verdict
“rafale” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,362 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,362
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rajada de vento, chuva ou neve repentina
Corpus desk
Index PT-rafale · rafale · Portuguese
rafale · rank #59,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,362
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH radiologista
Nearest frequency peer: radiologista (-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 “rafale”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pueril
pueril
40,646 corpus weight
- radiologista
radiologista
40,640 corpus weight
- rafale
rafale
40,639 corpus weight
- rebolado
rebolado
40,633 corpus weight
- responsa
responsa
40,623 corpus weight
- riba
riba
40,619 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “rafale” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rafale |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.fal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “rafale” em português
Rare enough to double-check
rafale is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,362 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.fal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "rajada de vento, chuva ou neve repentina".
Zero misspellings are on record for rafale in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is rafale, spelled R-A-F-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1rajada de vento, chuva ou neve repentina
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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