ballerina
/bɐ.le.ˈɾi.nɐ/
The verdict
“ballerina” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,495 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,495
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - , honraria concedida às mais excepcionais bailarinas em uma companhia de balé:
Corpus desk
Index PT-ballerina · ballerina · Portuguese
ballerina · rank #94,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,495
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bairrismo
Nearest frequency peer: bairrismo (-3 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 “ballerina”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- arriada
arriada
5,535 corpus weight
- autossusten…
autossustentável
5,520 corpus weight
- bairrismo
bairrismo
5,509 corpus weight
- ballerina
ballerina
5,506 corpus weight
- beware
beware
5,490 corpus weight
- brejão
brejão
5,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ballerina” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballerina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.le.ˈɾi.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ballerina” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ballerina is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,495 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɐ.le.ˈɾi.nɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: ", honraria concedida às mais excepcionais bailarinas em uma companhia de balé:".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ballerina, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is ballerina, spelled B-A-L-L-E-R-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1, honraria concedida às mais excepcionais bailarinas em uma companhia de balé:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ballerina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mathilde Kschessinska foi a primeira ballerina russa do mundo.
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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