barbarismo
The verdict
“barbarismo” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o mesmo que barbaridade
Corpus desk
Index PT-barbarismo · barbarismo · Portuguese
barbarismo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbarismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “barbarismo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
barbarismo is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barbarismo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
São exemplos de barbarismo:
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.