ababa
/a.ˈba.ba/
The verdict
“ababa” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,841 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,841
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - papoila, papoula (Papaver rhoeas)
Corpus desk
Index PT-ababa · ababa · Portuguese
ababa · rank #76,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,841
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH acrobático
Nearest frequency peer: acrobático (+8 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 “ababa”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- verticalida…
verticalidade
23,190 corpus weight
- ababa
ababa
23,160 corpus weight
- acrobático
acrobático
23,152 corpus weight
- acurácia
acurácia
23,150 corpus weight
- afternoon
afternoon
23,140 corpus weight
- algemar
algemar
23,129 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ababa” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ababa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /a.ˈba.ba/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ababa” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ababa is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,841 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /a.ˈba.ba/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ababa in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ababa, spelled A-B-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1papoila, papoula (Papaver rhoeas)
- 2indivíduo distraído
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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