rafeiro
/Rɐ.ˈfɐj.ɾu/
The verdict
“rafeiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,023 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,023
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que não tem raça definida
Corpus desk
Index PT-rafeiro · rafeiro · Portuguese
rafeiro · rank #85,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,023
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH queque
Nearest frequency peer: queque (-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 “rafeiro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- personalizá…
personalizável
15,017 corpus weight
- pornography
pornography
15,005 corpus weight
- procedure
procedure
14,997 corpus weight
- queque
queque
14,982 corpus weight
- rafeiro
rafeiro
14,978 corpus weight
- resurrection
resurrection
14,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “rafeiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rafeiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /Rɐ.ˈfɐj.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “rafeiro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
rafeiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,023 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /Rɐ.ˈfɐj.ɾu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rafeiro, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 rafeiro, spelled R-A-F-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1que não tem raça definida
- 2que anda sempre a aborrecer outrem
- 3que não presta
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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