carocha
/kaˈɾɔ.ʃɐ/
The verdict
“carocha” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #82,725 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,725
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - besouro
Corpus desk
Index PT-carocha · carocha · Portuguese
carocha · rank #82,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,725
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH carrada
Nearest frequency peer: carrada (+1 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 “carocha”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- capucho
capucho
17,283 corpus weight
- carapau
carapau
17,280 corpus weight
- carocha
carocha
17,276 corpus weight
- carrada
carrada
17,275 corpus weight
- cepo
cepo
17,268 corpus weight
- claquete
claquete
17,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “carocha” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carocha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kaˈɾɔ.ʃɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “carocha” em português
Rare enough to double-check
carocha is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #82,725 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kaˈɾɔ.ʃɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for carocha in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is carocha, spelled C-A-R-O-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1besouro
- 2barata
- 3um tipo de chapéu utilizado durante a inquisição espanhola
- 4primeira fatia em forma de calote de um pão redondo
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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