scarf
/skɑːɹf/
The verdict
“scarf” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #82,416 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,416
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cachecol, echarpe
Corpus desk
Index PT-scarf · scarf · Portuguese
scarf · rank #82,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,416
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH serdes
Nearest frequency peer: serdes (+7 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 “scarf”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- retratista
retratista
17,618 corpus weight
- réstia
réstia
17,599 corpus weight
- scarf
scarf
17,585 corpus weight
- serdes
serdes
17,578 corpus weight
- símio
símio
17,546 corpus weight
- tapetão
tapetão
17,540 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “scarf” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scarf |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skɑːɹf/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “scarf” em português
Rare enough to double-check
scarf is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #82,416 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /skɑːɹf/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cachecol, echarpe".
Zero misspellings are on record for scarf in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is scarf, spelled S-C-A-R-F.
Definition
- 1cachecol, echarpe
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).