caloria
/ka.lo.ˈɾi.a/
The verdict
“caloria” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,574 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,574
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unidade de medição do calor
Corpus desk
Index PT-caloria · caloria · Portuguese
caloria · rank #56,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,574
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH busão
Nearest frequency peer: busão (-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 “caloria”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bachelor
bachelor
43,458 corpus weight
- baobá
baobá
43,455 corpus weight
- ber
ber
43,447 corpus weight
- busão
busão
43,431 corpus weight
- caloria
caloria
43,427 corpus weight
- capotar
capotar
43,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “caloria” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caloria |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ka.lo.ˈɾi.a/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “caloria” em português
Rare enough to double-check
caloria is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,574 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ka.lo.ˈɾi.a/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for caloria in our index, 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is caloria, spelled C-A-L-O-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1unidade de medição do calor
- 2quantidade de energia necessária para, sob pressão constante, elevar a temperatura de um grama de água líquida em 1° C
- 3unidade com que se mede o valor nutricional dos alimentos
This word in other languages
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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