bara
/bà.ra/
The verdict
“bara” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,160 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,160
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - preferido, predileto
Corpus desk
Index PT-bara · bara · Portuguese
bara · rank #60,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,160
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH barrete
Nearest frequency peer: barrete (+1 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 “bara”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bajulação
bajulação
39,843 corpus weight
- bara
bara
39,841 corpus weight
- barrete
barrete
39,840 corpus weight
- baste
baste
39,839 corpus weight
- caramujo
caramujo
39,811 corpus weight
- carmesim
carmesim
39,809 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bara” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bara |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bà.ra/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bara” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bara is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,160 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /bà.ra/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "preferido, predileto".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bara, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is bara, spelled B-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1preferido, predileto
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).