barreira
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,496
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
barreira is aPortuguesenoun. It means: local de onde se extrai barro; barreiro Pronounced /bɐ.ˈRɐj.ɾɐ/. It ranks #5,496 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with barriga and banheira.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barreira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.ˈRɐj.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for barreira is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bɐ.ˈRɐj.ɾɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,496 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "local de onde se extrai barro; barreiro".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for barreira, with forms such as "abrreira", "bareira", and "barerira". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "barriga", "banheira", "barbeiro", 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 barreira, spelled B-A-R-R-E-I-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1local de onde se extrai barro; barreiro
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abrreira,bareira,barerira,barreiar,barreirra,barreria,barriera,bbarreira,brareira
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barreira
Misspelling Variants of "barreira"
Frequency rank: #5,496 in Portuguese
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