baleeiro
/ba.le.ˈej.ɾu/
The verdict
“baleeiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,984 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,984
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caçador de baleias
Corpus desk
Index PT-baleeiro · baleeiro · Portuguese
baleeiro · rank #61,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,984
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH balbúrdia
Nearest frequency peer: balbúrdia (-1 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 “baleeiro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- anglófono
anglófono
38,052 corpus weight
- antílope
antílope
38,048 corpus weight
- bacteriano
bacteriano
38,020 corpus weight
- balbúrdia
balbúrdia
38,018 corpus weight
- baleeiro
baleeiro
38,017 corpus weight
- canga
canga
37,985 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “baleeiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baleeiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ba.le.ˈej.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “baleeiro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
baleeiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,984 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ba.le.ˈej.ɾu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "caçador de baleias".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for baleeiro, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is baleeiro, spelled B-A-L-E-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1caçador de baleias
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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