alarve
/ɐ.ˈlaɾ.vɨ/
The verdict
“alarve” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rústico, rude, ou palerma
Corpus desk
Index PT-alarve · alarve · Portuguese
alarve · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alarve |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐ.ˈlaɾ.vɨ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “alarve” em português
Rare enough to double-check
alarve is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɐ.ˈlaɾ.vɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
alarve doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 alarve, spelled A-L-A-R-V-E.
Definition
- 1rústico, rude, ou palerma
- 2comilão, glutão
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.