bouça
/ˈbow.sɐ/
The verdict
“bouça” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,497 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,497
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terreno limitado inculto, impenetrável, às vezes com árvores, touça
Corpus desk
Index PT-bouca · bouça · Portuguese
bouça · rank #98,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,497
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH blew
Nearest frequency peer: blew (-10 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 “bouça”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- audit
audit
1,556 corpus weight
- bananinha
bananinha
1,540 corpus weight
- blew
blew
1,514 corpus weight
- bouça
bouça
1,504 corpus weight
- cardinalício
cardinalício
1,475 corpus weight
- centúria
centúria
1,461 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bouça” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbow.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bouça” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bouça is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,497 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbow.sɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bouça has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is bouça, spelled B-O-U-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1terreno limitado inculto, impenetrável, às vezes com árvores, touça
- 2terreno onde medra mato que se corta para estrumar
- 3terreno de mato ou baldio roçado para cultura de cereais
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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