beluga
The verdict
“beluga” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,001 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,001
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mamífero cetáceo da família dos monodontídeos (Delphinapterus leucas).
Corpus desk
Index PT-beluga · beluga · Portuguese
beluga · rank #66,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,001
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH began
Nearest frequency peer: began (-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 “beluga”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- autenticado
autenticado
34,017 corpus weight
- baio
baio
34,012 corpus weight
- began
began
34,002 corpus weight
- beluga
beluga
34,000 corpus weight
- biônico
biônico
33,992 corpus weight
- burrito
burrito
33,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “beluga” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beluga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “beluga” em português
Rare enough to double-check
beluga is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,001 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mamífero cetáceo da família dos monodontídeos (Delphinapterus leucas).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for beluga, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is beluga, spelled B-E-L-U-G-A.
Definition
- 1mamífero cetáceo da família dos monodontídeos (Delphinapterus leucas).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how beluga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O projeto é criticado por ambientalistas, que afirmam que a obra ameaça a população de baleias beluga na região.
Synonyms
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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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