camélia
/kɐ.ˈmɛ.ljɐ/
The verdict
“camélia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,765 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,765
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - flor da cameleira
Corpus desk
Index PT-camelia · camélia · Portuguese
camélia · rank #77,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,765
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH captor
Nearest frequency peer: captor (+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 “camélia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- calhorda
calhorda
22,241 corpus weight
- camélia
camélia
22,236 corpus weight
- captor
captor
22,232 corpus weight
- caramuru
caramuru
22,230 corpus weight
- categórico
categórico
22,226 corpus weight
- cay
cay
22,225 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “camélia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camélia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈmɛ.ljɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “camélia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
camélia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,765 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.ˈmɛ.ljɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for camélia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is camélia, spelled C-A-M-É-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1flor da cameleira
- 2esta planta
- 3o mesmo que japoneira e rosa-do-japão
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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