babaçu
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#59,558
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
babaçu is aPortuguesenoun. It means: palmeira da espécie Attalea speciosa, nativa do Brasil, especialmente da região da Mata dos Cocais, cujos frutos fornecem óleo, fibras e outros produtos
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babaçu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for babaçu is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #59,558 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for babaçu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is babaçu, spelled B-A-B-A-Ç-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1palmeira da espécie Attalea speciosa, nativa do Brasil, especialmente da região da Mata dos Cocais, cujos frutos fornecem óleo, fibras e outros produtos
- 2fruto dessa palmeira, de casca dura e polpa oleaginosa, usado na alimentação, na produção de óleo e em artesanato
Frequency rank: #59,558 in Portuguese
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