carda
/ˈkaɾ.dɐ/
The verdict
“carda” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instrumento com que se carda
Corpus desk
Index PT-carda · carda · Portuguese
carda · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carda |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaɾ.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “carda” em português
Rare enough to double-check
carda is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkaɾ.dɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for carda in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 carda, spelled C-A-R-D-A.
Definition
- 1instrumento com que se carda
- 2ato de cardar
- 3pregos miúdos
- 4antigo instrumento de tortura
- 5pequenas pastas de imundície que se agarram à lã dos animais
- 6sujidade na pele das pessoas
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.