acarajé
/a.ka.ɾaˈʒɛ/
The verdict
“acarajé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #36,301. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,301
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4,352
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
| 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) |
Where “acarajé” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around acarajé (IPA /a.ka.ɾaˈʒɛ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,301 among 4,352 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for acarajé, with forms such as "aacrajé", "acaarjé", and "acarajjé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is acarajé, spelled A-C-A-R-A-J-É.
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)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aacrajé
- acaarjé
- acarajjé
- acaraéj
- acarjaé
- acarrajé
- accarajé
- acraajé
- caarajé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acarajé - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “acarajé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-C-A-R-A-J-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /a.ka.ɾaˈʒɛ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.