baru
/ˈba.ɾu/, /ˈbɑ.rʊ/
The verdict
“baru” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,527 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,527
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forma imperativa do verbo bari
Corpus desk
Index PT-baru · baru · Portuguese
baru · rank #74,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,527
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH badalo
Nearest frequency peer: badalo (-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 “baru”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- assolar
assolar
25,490 corpus weight
- azedar
azedar
25,480 corpus weight
- badalo
badalo
25,476 corpus weight
- baru
baru
25,474 corpus weight
- bimbo
bimbo
25,468 corpus weight
- brioche
brioche
25,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “baru” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baru |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈba.ɾu/, /ˈbɑ.rʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “baru” em português
Rare enough to double-check
baru is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,527 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈba.ɾu/, /ˈbɑ.rʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "forma imperativa do verbo bari".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for baru, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is baru, spelled B-A-R-U.
Definition
- 1forma imperativa do verbo bari
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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