alcaide
/aɫ.ˈkaj.dɨ/
The verdict
“alcaide” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,498 among 4,352 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,498
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4,352
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - antigo título do chefe da aldeia; autoridade local
| 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) |
Where “alcaide” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
alcaide is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,498 among 4,352 “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
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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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Using “alcaide”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-L-C-A-I-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aɫ.ˈkaj.dɨ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.