bambara
/bãⁿ.ˈba.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“bambara” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,957 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,957
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo ao povo bambara
Corpus desk
Index PT-bambara · bambara · Portuguese
bambara · rank #87,957 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,957
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH awn
Nearest frequency peer: awn (-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 “bambara”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Atem
Atem
12,065 corpus weight
- atinar
atinar
12,063 corpus weight
- auta
auta
12,057 corpus weight
- awn
awn
12,049 corpus weight
- bambara
bambara
12,044 corpus weight
- Benedikt
Benedikt
12,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bambara” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bambara |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bãⁿ.ˈba.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bambara” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bambara is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,957 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /bãⁿ.ˈba.ɾɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bambara, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is bambara, spelled B-A-M-B-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1relativo ao povo bambara
- 2relativo ao idioma bambara
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).