boeira
The verdict
“boeira” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #93,524 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,524
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o mesmo que boieira
Corpus desk
Index PT-boeira · boeira · Portuguese
boeira · rank #93,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,524
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bisca
Nearest frequency peer: bisca (-5 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 “boeira”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bandalheira
bandalheira
6,496 corpus weight
- berbequim
berbequim
6,485 corpus weight
- bisca
bisca
6,482 corpus weight
- boeira
boeira
6,477 corpus weight
- calistenia
calistenia
6,439 corpus weight
- canaleta
canaleta
6,434 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “boeira” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boeira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “boeira” em português
Rare enough to double-check
boeira is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #93,524 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for boeira in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is boeira, spelled B-O-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1o mesmo que boieira
- 2buraco utilizado para drenar embarcações em terra:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boeira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Este barco não tem boeira?
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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