burlesco
/buɾ.ˈleʃ.ku/
The verdict
“burlesco” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,824 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,824
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que é cómico/cômico por ser caricato e/ou ridículo; zombeteiro:
Corpus desk
Index PT-burlesco · burlesco · Portuguese
burlesco · rank #70,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,824
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH calcificação
Nearest frequency peer: calcificação (+3 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 “burlesco”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- boçal
boçal
29,186 corpus weight
- boémia
boémia
29,185 corpus weight
- burlesco
burlesco
29,177 corpus weight
- calcificação
calcificação
29,174 corpus weight
- calvinista
calvinista
29,173 corpus weight
- careful
careful
29,170 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “burlesco” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burlesco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /buɾ.ˈleʃ.ku/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “burlesco” em português
Rare enough to double-check
burlesco is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,824 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /buɾ.ˈleʃ.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for burlesco, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is burlesco, spelled B-U-R-L-E-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1que é cómico/cômico por ser caricato e/ou ridículo; zombeteiro:
- 2que recorre à sátira, ao ridículo e/ou ao cómico/cômico para caricaturar alguém ou alguma situação
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how burlesco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"... em suma uma série de tumultos trágicos ou burlescos."
Synonyms
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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