barricar
/bɐ.Ri.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“barricar” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - interditar ruas, passagens, sobretudo por ocasião de motins populares
Corpus desk
Index PT-barricar · barricar · Portuguese
barricar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barricar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bɐ.Ri.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “barricar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
barricar is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /bɐ.Ri.ˈkaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for barricar in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is barricar, spelled B-A-R-R-I-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1interditar ruas, passagens, sobretudo por ocasião de motins populares
- 2proteger-se excessivamente
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.