badly
/ˈbæd.li/
The verdict
“badly” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,628 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,628
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mal
Corpus desk
Index PT-badly · badly · Portuguese
badly · rank #91,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,628
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH batelada
Nearest frequency peer: batelada (+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 “badly”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- arriar
arriar
8,393 corpus weight
- atmosphere
atmosphere
8,382 corpus weight
- badly
badly
8,373 corpus weight
- batelada
batelada
8,365 corpus weight
- bilinguismo
bilinguismo
8,354 corpus weight
- blablablá
blablablá
8,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “badly” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badly |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈbæd.li/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “badly” em português
Rare enough to double-check
badly is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,628 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /ˈbæd.li/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for badly, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is badly, spelled B-A-D-L-Y.
Definition
- 1mal
- 2mal (de maneira não adequada como por exemplo, para o tempo frio)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how badly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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