barbarismo
The verdict
“barbarismo” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - o mesmo que barbaridade
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbarismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “barbarismo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for barbarismo is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for barbarismo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is barbarismo, spelled B-A-R-B-A-R-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1o mesmo que barbaridade
- 2erro na pronúncia, na acentuação, na flexão, na pronúncia ou na significação de uma palavra (emprego inadequado de homônimos ou parônimos); emprego de estrangeirismo por desprezo das vernáculas, erro de sintaxe, seja de concordância (verbal ou nominal), regência (verbal ou nominal) ou colocação pronominal (solecismo)
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “barbarismo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-A-R-B-A-R-I-S-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.