basement
/beɪsmənt/
The verdict
“basement” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,447 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,447
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - porão
Corpus desk
Index PT-basement · basement · Portuguese
basement · rank #97,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,447
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH beltrano
Nearest frequency peer: beltrano (+3 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 “basement”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- arto
arto
2,582 corpus weight
- babau
babau
2,565 corpus weight
- basement
basement
2,554 corpus weight
- beltrano
beltrano
2,551 corpus weight
- bilateralme…
bilateralmente
2,546 corpus weight
- boco
boco
2,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “basement” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basement |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /beɪsmənt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “basement” em português
Rare enough to double-check
basement is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,447 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /beɪsmənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "porão".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for basement, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is basement, spelled B-A-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1porão
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).