borbulhar
/buɾ.bu.ˈʎaɾ/
The verdict
“borbulhar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,873 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,873
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - borbotar
Corpus desk
Index PT-borbulhar · borbulhar · Portuguese
borbulhar · rank #81,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,873
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH Bizâncio
Nearest frequency peer: Bizâncio (-8 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 “borbulhar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- azevinho
azevinho
18,150 corpus weight
- baralhar
baralhar
18,147 corpus weight
- Bizâncio
Bizâncio
18,136 corpus weight
- borbulhar
borbulhar
18,128 corpus weight
- cachalote
cachalote
18,113 corpus weight
- carrilhão
carrilhão
18,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “borbulhar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borbulhar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /buɾ.bu.ˈʎaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “borbulhar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
borbulhar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,873 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /buɾ.bu.ˈʎaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for borbulhar, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is borbulhar, spelled B-O-R-B-U-L-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1borbotar
- 2sair em borbulhas, em bolhas
- 3cobrir-se de borbulhas
- 4formar cachão, fervendo
- 5sair em magotes, com ímpeto
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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