xenófobo
The verdict
“xenófobo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,569 among 27 “X” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,569
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 27
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que tem aversão ao que é estrangeiro
Corpus desk
Index PT-xenofobo · xenófobo · Portuguese
xenófobo · rank #64,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,569
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 27
- PHOTO-FINISH Zephyr
Nearest frequency peer: Zephyr (+5 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 “xenófobo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- trapalhada
trapalhada
35,462 corpus weight
- urtiga
urtiga
35,448 corpus weight
- xenófobo
xenófobo
35,432 corpus weight
- Zephyr
Zephyr
35,427 corpus weight
- aber
aber
35,418 corpus weight
- aliciar
aliciar
35,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “xenófobo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xenófobo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “xenófobo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
xenófobo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,569 among 27 “X” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que tem aversão ao que é estrangeiro".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for xenófobo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 xenófobo, spelled X-E-N-Ó-F-O-B-O.
Definition
- 1que tem aversão ao que é estrangeiro
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how xenófobo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As autoridades descartaram a possibilidade de o incêndio ser um ataque xenófobo.
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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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