borralheira
/bor̄aˈʎejra/
The verdict
“borralheira” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,872 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,872
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - local onde se junta as cinzas (borralho) do fogão ou forno a lenha
Corpus desk
Index PT-borralheira · borralheira · Portuguese
borralheira · rank #88,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,872
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH Cameroon
Nearest frequency peer: Cameroon (+18 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 “borralheira”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- assepsia
assepsia
11,174 corpus weight
- auch
auch
11,168 corpus weight
- baldeação
baldeação
11,152 corpus weight
- borralheira
borralheira
11,129 corpus weight
- Cameroon
Cameroon
11,111 corpus weight
- choupo
choupo
11,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “borralheira” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borralheira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bor̄aˈʎejra/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “borralheira” em português
Rare enough to double-check
borralheira is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,872 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bor̄aˈʎejra/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "local onde se junta as cinzas (borralho) do fogão ou forno a lenha".
No generated misspelling entries exist for borralheira in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is borralheira, spelled B-O-R-R-A-L-H-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1local onde se junta as cinzas (borralho) do fogão ou forno a lenha
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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