acarajé
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,301
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
acarajé is aPortuguesenoun. It means: quitute da culinária afro-brasileira, típico do estado da Bahia, feito de massa de feijão-fradinho, cebola ralada, sal e camarão seco moído, frito em azeite-de-dendê e servido com alguns recheios t... Pronounced /a.ka.ɾaˈʒɛ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acarajé |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /a.ka.ɾaˈʒɛ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for acarajé is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a.ka.ɾaˈʒɛ/. Corpus data places it at rank #36,301 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for acarajé, with forms such as "aacrajé", "acaarjé", and "acarajjé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is acarajé, spelled A-C-A-R-A-J-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1quitute da culinária afro-brasileira, típico do estado da Bahia, feito de massa de feijão-fradinho, cebola ralada, sal e camarão seco moído, frito em azeite-de-dendê e servido com alguns recheios também típicos da cozinha baiana como o vatapá e o caruru, além de um forte molho de pimenta artesanal
- 2alimento ritualístico e sagrado (comida de santo) como oferta a várias divindades do candomblé como Obá e erês, e especialmente para Xangô (ou Alafin, rei de Oyó) e Iansã (ou Oiá, a rainha esposa de Alafin)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aacrajé,acaarjé,acarajjé,acaraéj,acarjaé,acarrajé,accarajé,acraajé,caarajé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "acarajé"
Frequency rank: #36,301 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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