bandalheira
/bɐ̃.dɐ.ˈʎɐj.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“bandalheira” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #93,505 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,505
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ação ou modo próprio de bandalho; safadeza
Corpus desk
Index PT-bandalheira · bandalheira · Portuguese
bandalheira · rank #93,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,505
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH berbequim
Nearest frequency peer: berbequim (+11 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 “bandalheira”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- arrozal
arrozal
6,529 corpus weight
- assíncrono
assíncrono
6,521 corpus weight
- bandalheira
bandalheira
6,496 corpus weight
- berbequim
berbequim
6,485 corpus weight
- bisca
bisca
6,482 corpus weight
- boeira
boeira
6,477 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bandalheira” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandalheira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ̃.dɐ.ˈʎɐj.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bandalheira” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bandalheira is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #93,505 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɐ̃.dɐ.ˈʎɐj.ɾɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bandalheira has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. 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 bandalheira, spelled B-A-N-D-A-L-H-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1ação ou modo próprio de bandalho; safadeza
- 2o mesmo que bandalhice
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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