shave
The verdict
“shave” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,620 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,620
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eliminar pelos os cortando rente à pele, raspar fora os pelos
Corpus desk
Index PT-shave · shave · Portuguese
shave · rank #88,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,620
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH Serbia
Nearest frequency peer: Serbia (-3 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 “shave”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- roliço
roliço
11,421 corpus weight
- rosnar
rosnar
11,418 corpus weight
- rufo
rufo
11,412 corpus weight
- Serbia
Serbia
11,384 corpus weight
- shave
shave
11,381 corpus weight
- tailor
tailor
11,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “shave” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shave |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “shave” em português
Rare enough to double-check
shave is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,620 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for shave in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is shave, spelled S-H-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1eliminar pelos os cortando rente à pele, raspar fora os pelos
- 2barbear
- 3fazer a barba
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
to shave oneself
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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