bocaina
The verdict
“bocaina” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,174 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,174
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - depressão numa serra
Corpus desk
Index PT-bocaina · bocaina · Portuguese
bocaina · rank #53,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,174
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH blur
Nearest frequency peer: blur (-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 “bocaina”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- apuro
apuro
46,859 corpus weight
- barulheira
barulheira
46,838 corpus weight
- blur
blur
46,828 corpus weight
- bocaina
bocaina
46,827 corpus weight
- cavanhaque
cavanhaque
46,804 corpus weight
- cestinha
cestinha
46,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bocaina” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bocaina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bocaina” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bocaina is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,174 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bocaina has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is bocaina, spelled B-O-C-A-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1depressão numa serra
- 2ladeira muito íngreme de cordilheira aberta em forma de boca
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bocaina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"... arregoados divagantes de algares, sulcos de despenhadeiros, socavas de bocainas, criava-lhe perspectiva inteiramente nova."
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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