baluarte
/bɐ.ˈlwaɾ.tɨ/
The verdict
“baluarte” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,805 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,805
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - construção fortificada
Corpus desk
Index PT-baluarte · baluarte · Portuguese
baluarte · rank #54,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,805
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH autografar
Nearest frequency peer: autografar (-9 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 “baluarte”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- artimanha
artimanha
45,215 corpus weight
- auréola
auréola
45,206 corpus weight
- autografar
autografar
45,205 corpus weight
- baluarte
baluarte
45,196 corpus weight
- brevidade
brevidade
45,183 corpus weight
- callum
callum
45,174 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “baluarte” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baluarte |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.ˈlwaɾ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “baluarte” em português
Rare enough to double-check
baluarte is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,805 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɐ.ˈlwaɾ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for baluarte, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 baluarte, spelled B-A-L-U-A-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1construção fortificada
- 2lugar seguro
- 3sustentáculo
- 4bastião
- 5fortaleza
- 6pessoa ilustre
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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