barlavento
/bɐɾ.lɐ.ˈvẽ.tu/
The verdict
“barlavento” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,639 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,639
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - direção de onde sopra o vento
Corpus desk
Index PT-barlavento · barlavento · Portuguese
barlavento · rank #62,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,639
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH banalizar
Nearest frequency peer: banalizar (-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 “barlavento”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- almejar
almejar
37,398 corpus weight
- arejar
arejar
37,388 corpus weight
- arrebatar
arrebatar
37,385 corpus weight
- banalizar
banalizar
37,366 corpus weight
- barlavento
barlavento
37,362 corpus weight
- breca
breca
37,339 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “barlavento” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barlavento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐɾ.lɐ.ˈvẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “barlavento” em português
Rare enough to double-check
barlavento is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,639 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɐɾ.lɐ.ˈvẽ.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for barlavento, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is barlavento, spelled B-A-R-L-A-V-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1direção de onde sopra o vento
- 2bordo do barco voltado para a direção de onde o vento sopra
Antonyms
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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