battery

noun

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The verdict

“battery” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,584 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,584
frequency rank, Portuguese
840
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pilha

Corpus desk

Index PT-battery · battery · Portuguese

battery · rank #52,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,584
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 840
  • PHOTO-FINISH barítono

Nearest frequency peer: barítono (-1 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 “battery”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “battery” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for battery
PropertyValue
Headwordbattery
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#52,584
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “battery” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.batterycai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “barítono” (#52,583), “autre” (#52,572), “austero” (#52,569). Entre 840 lemas com “B”, “battery” fica em #52,584. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

battery is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,584 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

battery has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is battery, spelled B-A-T-T-E-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    pilha
  2. 2
    bateria

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how battery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Battery not included.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "battery"?
"battery" is spelled B-A-T-T-E-R-Y.
What does "battery" mean?
As a noun, "battery" means: pilha
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "battery", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

austero#52,569alarmar#52,538colibri#52,637vidrado#52,502

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list