barn
/ˈbaɾ.nɪ/, /ˈbaɾn/
The verdict
“barn” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,994 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,994
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unidade de medida de área, muito usada para descrever seções de choque, equivalente a 10⁻²⁸ metros quadrados
Corpus desk
Index PT-barn · barn · Portuguese
barn · rank #51,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,994
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH Basis
Nearest frequency peer: Basis (+2 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 “barn”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- autumn
autumn
48,017 corpus weight
- avicultura
avicultura
48,016 corpus weight
- backbone
backbone
48,012 corpus weight
- barn
barn
48,007 corpus weight
- Basis
Basis
48,005 corpus weight
- bou
bou
47,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “barn” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barn |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbaɾ.nɪ/, /ˈbaɾn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “barn” em português
Rare enough to double-check
barn is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,994 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbaɾ.nɪ/, /ˈbaɾn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unidade de medida de área, muito usada para descrever seções de choque, equivalente a 10⁻²⁸ metros quadrados".
barn doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is barn, spelled B-A-R-N.
Definition
- 1unidade de medida de área, muito usada para descrever seções de choque, equivalente a 10⁻²⁸ metros quadrados
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); 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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