alarma
The verdict
“alarma” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,431 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,431
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o mesmo que alarme
Corpus desk
Index PT-alarma · alarma · Portuguese
alarma · rank #94,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,431
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH alfacinha
Nearest frequency peer: alfacinha (+2 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 “alarma”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Agamemnon
Agamemnon
5,582 corpus weight
- aguar
aguar
5,577 corpus weight
- ajuizar
ajuizar
5,574 corpus weight
- alarma
alarma
5,570 corpus weight
- alfacinha
alfacinha
5,568 corpus weight
- aliteração
aliteração
5,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “alarma” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alarma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “alarma” em português
Rare enough to double-check
alarma is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,431 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "o mesmo que alarme".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alarma, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct Portuguese form is alarma, spelled A-L-A-R-M-A.
Definition
- 1o mesmo que alarme
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alarma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bastou que uma empresa de hipotecas nos Estados Unidos desse a conhecer que seus créditos eram podres ou que um pouco conhecido Northern Rocks, da Inglaterra, ficasse em dificuldades para soar o alarma.
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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