acrobata

noun

The verdict

“acrobata” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,198 among 4,352 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,198
frequency rank, Portuguese
4,352
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - dançarino de corda

Key facts for acrobata
PropertyValue
Headwordacrobata
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#54,198
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “acrobata” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). acrobata lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

acrobata is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,198 among 4,352 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for acrobata, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is acrobata, spelled A-C-R-O-B-A-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    dançarino de corda
  2. 2
    ginasta
  3. 3
    equilibrista
  4. 4
    pessoa que procura impressionar, maravilhar através de procedimentos extraordinários

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acrobata"?
"acrobata" is spelled A-C-R-O-B-A-T-A.
What does "acrobata" mean?
As a noun, "acrobata" means: dançarino de corda
What language does "acrobata" come from?
"acrobata" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “acrobata”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-C-R-O-B-A-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list