regaço
The verdict
“regaço” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,660 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,660
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - colo
Corpus desk
Index PT-regaco · regaço · Portuguese
regaço · rank #76,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,660
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH pujante
Nearest frequency peer: pujante (-26 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 “regaço”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- primrose
primrose
23,376 corpus weight
- profundeza
profundeza
23,374 corpus weight
- protelar
protelar
23,371 corpus weight
- pujante
pujante
23,367 corpus weight
- regaço
regaço
23,341 corpus weight
- rotta
rotta
23,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “regaço” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regaço |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “regaço” em português
Rare enough to double-check
regaço is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,660 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "colo".
regaço doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 regaço, spelled R-E-G-A-Ç-O.
Definition
- 1colo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how regaço appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tira, pois, o poldrinho do regaço materno, apesar da relutância da Morena, que afinal cede.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).