balear
/ba.le.ˈaɾ/
The verdict
“balear” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,316 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,316
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo às Ilhas Baleares
Corpus desk
Index PT-balear · balear · Portuguese
balear · rank #75,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,316
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH autenticamente
Nearest frequency peer: autenticamente (-5 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 “balear”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- aposentação
aposentação
24,714 corpus weight
- autenticame…
autenticamente
24,690 corpus weight
- balear
balear
24,685 corpus weight
- bez
bez
24,667 corpus weight
- bind
bind
24,665 corpus weight
- boquiaberto
boquiaberto
24,658 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “balear” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ba.le.ˈaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “balear” em português
Rare enough to double-check
balear is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,316 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ba.le.ˈaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "relativo às Ilhas Baleares".
Zero misspellings are on record for balear in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is balear, spelled B-A-L-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1relativo às Ilhas Baleares
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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