varredor
/va.ʁeˈdoʁ/
The verdict
“varredor” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,273 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,273
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pessoa cuja ocupação é varrer; gari
Corpus desk
Index PT-varredor · varredor · Portuguese
varredor · rank #69,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,273
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH venerando
Nearest frequency peer: venerando (+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 “varredor”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ultramarino
ultramarino
30,736 corpus weight
- vambora
vambora
30,732 corpus weight
- varredor
varredor
30,728 corpus weight
- venerando
venerando
30,725 corpus weight
- vicious
vicious
30,719 corpus weight
- viticultura
viticultura
30,710 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “varredor” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | varredor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /va.ʁeˈdoʁ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “varredor” em português
Rare enough to double-check
varredor is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,273 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /va.ʁeˈdoʁ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pessoa cuja ocupação é varrer; gari".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for varredor, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is varredor, spelled V-A-R-R-E-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1pessoa cuja ocupação é varrer; gari
This word in other languages
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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