bordar
/buɾ.ˈdaɾ/
The verdict
“bordar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,729 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,729
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fazer uma bordadura
Corpus desk
Index PT-bordar · bordar · Portuguese
bordar · rank #53,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,729
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH boro
Nearest frequency peer: boro (+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 “bordar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Bier
Bier
46,279 corpus weight
- bordar
bordar
46,272 corpus weight
- boro
boro
46,271 corpus weight
- bout
bout
46,270 corpus weight
- Bulgaria
Bulgaria
46,268 corpus weight
- byte
byte
46,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bordar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /buɾ.ˈdaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bordar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bordar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,729 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /buɾ.ˈdaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bordar in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bordar, spelled B-O-R-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer uma bordadura
- 2ornar; enfeitar
- 3cercar
- 4ter-se como hóspede
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bordar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
vou dar-lhe aqui uma pequena amostra de elementos ingleses assimilados pelos nossos colonos açoreanos: bordar = hospedar
This word in other languages
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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