rufião
/Ru.ˈfjɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“rufião” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a pessoa que se mete em brigas por causa de mulheres de má reputação
Corpus desk
Index PT-rufiao · rufião · Portuguese
rufião · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rufião |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Ru.ˈfjɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “rufião” em português
Rare enough to double-check
rufião is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /Ru.ˈfjɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for rufião in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is rufião, spelled R-U-F-I-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1a pessoa que se mete em brigas por causa de mulheres de má reputação
- 2a pessoa que vive à custas de prostitutas
- 3alcoviteiro
- 4explorador da atividade da prostituição
- 5cáften, o que vive do comércio de meretrizes
- 6cafetão
- 7brigão
- 8boi que, por cirurgia, está impossibilitado de penetrar fêmeas e é utilizado para a identificação de vacas no cio; também estimula o estro e a ovulação das fêmeas
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.