bark
The verdict
“bark” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,519 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,519
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - latido
Corpus desk
Index PT-bark · bark · Portuguese
bark · rank #71,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,519
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bagatela
Nearest frequency peer: bagatela (-7 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 “bark”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- argônio
argônio
28,505 corpus weight
- aspereza
aspereza
28,496 corpus weight
- bagatela
bagatela
28,489 corpus weight
- bark
bark
28,482 corpus weight
- bigamia
bigamia
28,469 corpus weight
- Bild
Bild
28,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bark” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bark |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bark” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bark is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,519 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bark doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is bark, spelled B-A-R-K.
Definition
- 1latido
- 2casca
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bark appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The dog’s bark.
The bark of a tree.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).