alcaide
/aɫ.ˈkaj.dɨ/
The verdict
“alcaide” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,498 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,498
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - antigo título do chefe da aldeia; autoridade local
Corpus desk
Index PT-alcaide · alcaide · Portuguese
alcaide · rank #56,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,498
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH alínea
Nearest frequency peer: alínea (+6 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 “alcaide”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- admissibili…
admissibilidade
43,513 corpus weight
- alcaide
alcaide
43,503 corpus weight
- alínea
alínea
43,497 corpus weight
- ameba
ameba
43,496 corpus weight
- anagrama
anagrama
43,490 corpus weight
- andor
andor
43,489 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “alcaide” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcaide |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aɫ.ˈkaj.dɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “alcaide” em português
Rare enough to double-check
alcaide is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,498 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /aɫ.ˈkaj.dɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "antigo título do chefe da aldeia; autoridade local".
alcaide doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is alcaide, spelled A-L-C-A-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1antigo título do chefe da aldeia; autoridade local
Synonyms
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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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