bugiganga
/bu.ʒi.ˈɡɐ̃.ɡɐ/
The verdict
“bugiganga” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,147 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,147
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - qualquer coisa sem valor ou utilidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-bugiganga · bugiganga · Portuguese
bugiganga · rank #76,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,147
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bugio
Nearest frequency peer: bugio (+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 “bugiganga”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bisbilhotar
bisbilhotar
23,870 corpus weight
- botica
botica
23,859 corpus weight
- bugiganga
bugiganga
23,854 corpus weight
- bugio
bugio
23,853 corpus weight
- buço
buço
23,851 corpus weight
- Carles
Carles
23,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bugiganga” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bugiganga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bu.ʒi.ˈɡɐ̃.ɡɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bugiganga” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bugiganga is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,147 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bu.ʒi.ˈɡɐ̃.ɡɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "qualquer coisa sem valor ou utilidade".
bugiganga has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is bugiganga, spelled B-U-G-I-G-A-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1qualquer coisa sem valor ou utilidade
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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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