barriga

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,665

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

barriga is aPortuguesenoun. It means: cavidade do tronco dos animais, que fica entre o tórax e a bacia e contém o estômago e os intestinos, entre outros órgãos; ventre It ranks #3,665 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with barril and barra.

Key facts for barriga
PropertyValue
Headwordbarriga
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,665
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of barriga in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for barriga is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,665 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for barriga, with forms such as "abrriga", "bariga", and "barirga". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "barril", "barra", "barraca", 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 barriga, spelled B-A-R-R-I-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    cavidade do tronco dos animais, que fica entre o tórax e a bacia e contém o estômago e os intestinos, entre outros órgãos; ventre
  2. 2
    gravidez:
  3. 3
    estômago:
  4. 4
    pança, bandulho, bucho, rotundidade
  5. 5
    saliência arredondada, bojo, convexidade:

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abrriga,bariga,barirga,barrgia,barriag,barrigga,bbarriga,brariga

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barriga

Misspelling Variants of "barriga"

abrriga7bariga6barirga7barrgia7barriag7barrigga8bbarriga8brariga7
Misspelling Variants of "barriga"

Frequency rank: #3,665 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barriga"?
"barriga" is spelled B-A-R-R-I-G-A.
What does "barriga" mean?
As a noun, "barriga" means: cavidade do tronco dos animais, que fica entre o tórax e a bacia e contém o estômago e os intestinos, entre outros órgãos; ventre
What words are commonly confused with "barriga"?
"barriga" is commonly confused with "barril", "barra", "barraca". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "barriga" come from?
"barriga" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.