barcaça
/bɐɾ.ˈka.sɐ/
The verdict
“barcaça” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,260 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,260
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - grande barca
Corpus desk
Index PT-barcaca · barcaça · Portuguese
barcaça · rank #72,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,260
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bago
Nearest frequency peer: bago (-4 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 “barcaça”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- arrocho
arrocho
27,757 corpus weight
- bago
bago
27,745 corpus weight
- barcaça
barcaça
27,741 corpus weight
- binômio
binômio
27,730 corpus weight
- biodisponib…
biodisponibilidade
27,729 corpus weight
- bisão
bisão
27,727 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “barcaça” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barcaça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐɾ.ˈka.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “barcaça” em português
Rare enough to double-check
barcaça is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,260 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɐɾ.ˈka.sɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for barcaça, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is barcaça, spelled B-A-R-C-A-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1grande barca
- 2embarcação destinada a serviços auxiliares de navegação
Synonyms
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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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