reco
/ˈrɛ.kʊ/
The verdict
“reco” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,300 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,300
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - leitão, porco novo
Corpus desk
Index PT-reco · reco · Portuguese
reco · rank #51,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,300
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH quinquagésimo
Nearest frequency peer: quinquagésimo (-6 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 “reco”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- póstumo
póstumo
48,713 corpus weight
- quantitativo
quantitativo
48,711 corpus weight
- quinquagési…
quinquagésimo
48,707 corpus weight
- reco
reco
48,701 corpus weight
- risonho
risonho
48,680 corpus weight
- roncar
roncar
48,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “reco” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈrɛ.kʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “reco” em português
Rare enough to double-check
reco is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,300 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈrɛ.kʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for reco in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 reco, spelled R-E-C-O.
Definition
- 1leitão, porco novo
- 2qualquer porco
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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