bamboo
/bæmˈbu/
The verdict
“bamboo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,942 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,942
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bambu
Corpus desk
Index PT-bamboo · bamboo · Portuguese
bamboo · rank #67,942 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,942
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH batismal
Nearest frequency peer: batismal (+4 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 “bamboo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bamboo
bamboo
32,059 corpus weight
- batismal
batismal
32,055 corpus weight
- benzer
benzer
32,049 corpus weight
- bidê
bidê
32,046 corpus weight
- biga
biga
32,045 corpus weight
- biker
biker
32,044 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bamboo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bamboo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bæmˈbu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bamboo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bamboo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,942 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bæmˈbu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bamboo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is bamboo, spelled B-A-M-B-O-O.
Definition
- 1bambu
- 2madeira de bambu
- 3didjeridu
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).