bachelor
/'bætʃələr/
The verdict
“bachelor” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,543 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,543
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bacharel
Corpus desk
Index PT-bachelor · bachelor · Portuguese
bachelor · rank #56,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,543
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH aviário
Nearest frequency peer: aviário (-2 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 “bachelor”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- arme
arme
43,475 corpus weight
- assemelhar
assemelhar
43,469 corpus weight
- aviário
aviário
43,460 corpus weight
- bachelor
bachelor
43,458 corpus weight
- baobá
baobá
43,455 corpus weight
- ber
ber
43,447 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bachelor” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bachelor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'bætʃələr/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bachelor” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bachelor is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,543 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /'bætʃələr/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bachelor doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is bachelor, spelled B-A-C-H-E-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1bacharel
- 2solteiro
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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