braçada
/bɾɐ.ˈsa.dɐ/
The verdict
“braçada” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,545 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,545
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - quantidade de coisas que se pode carregar nos braços
Corpus desk
Index PT-bracada · braçada · Portuguese
braçada · rank #78,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,545
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH boucher
Nearest frequency peer: boucher (-4 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 “braçada”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Blume
Blume
21,463 corpus weight
- boucher
boucher
21,460 corpus weight
- braçada
braçada
21,456 corpus weight
- buxo
buxo
21,448 corpus weight
- canha
canha
21,439 corpus weight
- carago
carago
21,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “braçada” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braçada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɾɐ.ˈsa.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “braçada” em português
Rare enough to double-check
braçada is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,545 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɾɐ.ˈsa.dɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
braçada doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is braçada, spelled B-R-A-Ç-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1quantidade de coisas que se pode carregar nos braços
- 2cada um dos movimentos dos braços durante o ato de nadar
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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