badalar
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
- aromatizado
aromatizado
19,024 corpus weight
- arquitetar
arquitetar
19,022 corpus weight
- badalar
badalar
18,997 corpus weight
- beatlemania
beatlemania
18,989 corpus weight
- bilirrubina
bilirrubina
18,982 corpus weight
- bolsonarista
bolsonarista
18,976 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “badalar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badalar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “badalar” em português
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
- 1fazer soar o sino
- 2indicar as horas por meio de badaladas
- 3fazer muito sucesso (eventos, festas, etc.)
- 4(transitivo) revelar indiscretamente
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how badalar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os sinos badalaram no casamento.
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.
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