whopper
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
- vereação
vereação
5,649 corpus weight
- vigarice
vigarice
5,647 corpus weight
- werden
werden
5,633 corpus weight
- whopper
whopper
5,631 corpus weight
- xenônio
xenônio
5,629 corpus weight
- yn
yn
5,623 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “whopper” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whopper |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “whopper” em português
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
- 1algo notavelmente grande
- 2mentira ultrajante ou descarada
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how whopper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"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."
"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.
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