barra
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,355
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
barra is aPortuguesenoun. It means: peça larga de metal ou outro material, via de regra de forma cilíndrica ou prismática It ranks #2,355 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bora and Bart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for barra is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #2,355 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for barra, with forms such as "abrra", "bara", and "barar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bora", "Bart", "broa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is barra, spelled B-A-R-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1peça larga de metal ou outro material, via de regra de forma cilíndrica ou prismática
- 2lingote de ouro ou prata
- 3pequeno bloco de um produto
- 4parte final de uma roupa onde se dá o acabamento
- 5equipamento de ginástica que consiste de um ou dois tubos horizontais apoiados em tubos verticais
- 6na desembocadura de um rio, acumulação de areia ou lodo que atrapalha a navegação
- 7sinal gráfico oblíquo: /
- 8sinal gráfico vertical: |
- 9linha vertical impressa com diferentes espessuras, para ser utilizada nos códigos de barras
- 10algo difícil de resolver
- 11sobrado simples nas vivendas antigas, sobre a corte ou a cozinha, que serve de quarto ou de lugar para armazenar frutos
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abrra,bara,barar,bbarra,brara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barra
Misspelling Variants of "barra"
Frequency rank: #2,355 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index: