badalar

verb

The verdict

“badalar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,004 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,004
frequency rank, Portuguese
840
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fazer soar o sino

Corpus desk

Index PT-badalar · badalar · Portuguese

badalar · rank #81,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,004
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 840
  • PHOTO-FINISH beatlemania

Nearest frequency peer: beatlemania (+8 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 “badalar”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “badalar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for badalar
PropertyValue
Headwordbadalar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#81,004
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “badalar” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).badalarcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “beatlemania” (#81,012), “bilirrubina” (#81,019), “bolsonarista” (#81,025). Entre 840 lemas com “B”, “badalar” fica em #81,004. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

badalar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,004 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for badalar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is badalar, spelled B-A-D-A-L-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    fazer soar o sino
  2. 2
    indicar as horas por meio de badaladas
  3. 3
    fazer muito sucesso (eventos, festas, etc.)
  4. 4
    (transitivo) revelar indiscretamente

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how badalar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Os sinos badalaram no casamento.
  2. Os sinos badalaram três horas.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "badalar"?
"badalar" is spelled B-A-D-A-L-A-R.
What does "badalar" mean?
As a verb, "badalar" means: fazer soar o sino
What language does "badalar" come from?
"badalar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "badalar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list