bananinha

noun

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The verdict

“bananinha” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,461 among 2,073 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,461
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,073
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - talho estreito feito da carne que fica entre os ossos da caixa torácica do animal de corte

Key facts for bananinha
PropertyValue
Headwordbananinha
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#98,461
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “bananinha” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). bananinha lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bananinha is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,461 among 2,073 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "talho estreito feito da carne que fica entre os ossos da caixa torácica do animal de corte".

Zero misspellings are on record for bananinha in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is bananinha, spelled B-A-N-A-N-I-N-H-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    talho estreito feito da carne que fica entre os ossos da caixa torácica do animal de corte

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bananinha"?
"bananinha" is spelled B-A-N-A-N-I-N-H-A.
What does "bananinha" mean?
As a noun, "bananinha" means: talho estreito feito da carne que fica entre os ossos da caixa torácica do animal de corte
What language does "bananinha" come from?
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Using “bananinha”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-A-N-A-N-I-N-H-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list