whopper

noun

The verdict

“whopper” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,370 among 110 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,370
frequency rank, Portuguese
110
“W” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - algo notavelmente grande

Corpus desk

Index PT-whopper · whopper · Portuguese

whopper · rank #94,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #94,370
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 110
  • PHOTO-FINISH werden

Nearest frequency peer: werden (-2 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 “whopper”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “whopper” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for whopper
PropertyValue
Headwordwhopper
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#94,370
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “whopper” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).whoppercai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “werden” (#94,368), “xenônio” (#94,372), “yn” (#94,378). Entre 110 lemas com “W”, “whopper” fica em #94,370. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

whopper is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,370 among 110 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for whopper, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is whopper, spelled W-H-O-P-P-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    algo notavelmente grande
  2. 2
    mentira ultrajante ou descarada

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how whopper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "I’d gone out pike fishing, bless you, never thinking of a trout, and when I saw that whopper on the end of my line, blest if it didn’t quite take me aback. Well, you see, he weighed twenty-six pound."
  2. "When he got done telling it there was one of them uncomfortable silences that comes, you know, when a person has been telling a whopper and you feel sorry for him and wish you could think of some way to change the subject and let him down easy, […]"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "whopper"?
"whopper" is spelled W-H-O-P-P-E-R.
What does "whopper" mean?
As a noun, "whopper" means: algo notavelmente grande
What language does "whopper" come from?
"whopper" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "whopper", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list