candeia
/kɐ̃.ˈdɐj.ɐ/
The verdict
“candeia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,830 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,830
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - utensílio doméstico rústico usado para iluminação, com pavio abastecido a óleo
Corpus desk
Index PT-candeia · candeia · Portuguese
candeia · rank #54,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,830
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH calço
Nearest frequency peer: calço (-2 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 “candeia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- brevidade
brevidade
45,183 corpus weight
- callum
callum
45,174 corpus weight
- calço
calço
45,173 corpus weight
- candeia
candeia
45,171 corpus weight
- castrar
castrar
45,167 corpus weight
- chaga
chaga
45,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “candeia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | candeia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ̃.ˈdɐj.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “candeia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
candeia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,830 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ̃.ˈdɐj.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for candeia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 candeia, spelled C-A-N-D-E-I-A.
Definition
- 1utensílio doméstico rústico usado para iluminação, com pavio abastecido a óleo
- 2vela de cera
- 3designação comum a várias espécies vegetais arbóreas da família das compostas
- 4flor masculina do castanheiro
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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