baobá
The verdict
“baobá” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,546 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,546
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - árvore tropical africana (Adansonia)
Corpus desk
Index PT-baoba · baobá · Portuguese
baobá · rank #56,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,546
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bachelor
Nearest frequency peer: bachelor (-3 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 “baobá”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- arme
arme
43,475 corpus weight
- assemelhar
assemelhar
43,469 corpus weight
- aviário
aviário
43,460 corpus weight
- bachelor
bachelor
43,458 corpus weight
- baobá
baobá
43,455 corpus weight
- ber
ber
43,447 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “baobá” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baobá |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “baobá” em português
Rare enough to double-check
baobá is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,546 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "árvore tropical africana (Adansonia)".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for baobá, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is baobá, spelled B-A-O-B-Á.
Definition
- 1árvore tropical africana (Adansonia)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baobá appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
...continente de Gondvana. Esta base de dados, conhecida como Gondwana Geoscientific Indexing Database ( GO-GEOID ), contém informações acerca deste continente há 155 milhões de anos, antes da sua fragmentação. A árvore baobá, encontrada quer em África quer na Austrália, é um vestígio desta antiga massa continental.
Synonyms
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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