rufar
/Ru.ˈfaɾ/
The verdict
“rufar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,681 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,681
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tocar dando rufos
Corpus desk
Index PT-rufar · rufar · Portuguese
rufar · rank #87,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,681
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH salgar
Nearest frequency peer: salgar (+12 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 “rufar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Príamo
Príamo
12,381 corpus weight
- pugilismo
pugilismo
12,380 corpus weight
- realejo
realejo
12,363 corpus weight
- rufar
rufar
12,320 corpus weight
- salgar
salgar
12,308 corpus weight
- somático
somático
12,278 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “rufar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rufar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /Ru.ˈfaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “rufar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
rufar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,681 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /Ru.ˈfaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
rufar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is rufar, spelled R-U-F-A-R.
Definition
- 1tocar dando rufos
- 2fazer rufos ou pregas em
- 3comer
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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