bacamarte
/bɐ.kɐ.ˈmaɾ.tɨ/
The verdict
“bacamarte” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,636 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,636
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - arma de fogo de cano curto e largo
Corpus desk
Index PT-bacamarte · bacamarte · Portuguese
bacamarte · rank #64,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,636
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bacanal
Nearest frequency peer: bacanal (+1 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 “bacamarte”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- arrebatador
arrebatador
35,377 corpus weight
- autóctone
autóctone
35,368 corpus weight
- bacamarte
bacamarte
35,365 corpus weight
- bacanal
bacanal
35,364 corpus weight
- biju
biju
35,353 corpus weight
- borbulha
borbulha
35,349 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bacamarte” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bacamarte |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.kɐ.ˈmaɾ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bacamarte” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bacamarte is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,636 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɐ.kɐ.ˈmaɾ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bacamarte, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 bacamarte, spelled B-A-C-A-M-A-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1arma de fogo de cano curto e largo
- 2livro velho e pesado
- 3planta brasileira
- 4homem gordo e inútil
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bacamarte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arnaldo tinha muita vontade de dar um tiro com o bacamarte do pai.
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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