balsâmico
/baɫ.ˈsɐ.mi.ku/
The verdict
“balsâmico” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,182 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,182
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que tem as propriedades, especialmente o odor, do bálsamo
Corpus desk
Index PT-balsamico · balsâmico · Portuguese
balsâmico · rank #86,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,182
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH avivar
Nearest frequency peer: avivar (-7 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 “balsâmico”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- aspersão
aspersão
13,838 corpus weight
- aunque
aunque
13,830 corpus weight
- autoavaliaç…
autoavaliação
13,829 corpus weight
- avivar
avivar
13,826 corpus weight
- balsâmico
balsâmico
13,819 corpus weight
- biberão
biberão
13,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “balsâmico” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balsâmico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /baɫ.ˈsɐ.mi.ku/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “balsâmico” em português
Rare enough to double-check
balsâmico is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,182 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /baɫ.ˈsɐ.mi.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que tem as propriedades, especialmente o odor, do bálsamo".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for balsâmico, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is balsâmico, spelled B-A-L-S-Â-M-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1que tem as propriedades, especialmente o odor, do bálsamo
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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