carpa
/ˈkaɾ.pɐ/
The verdict
“carpa” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #50,389 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,389
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - peixe de água doce da família dos ciprinídeos
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carpa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaɾ.pɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carpa” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for carpa is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkaɾ.pɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,389 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "peixe de água doce da família dos ciprinídeos".
No misspelling variants are generated for carpa in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 carpa, spelled C-A-R-P-A.
Definition
- 1peixe de água doce da família dos ciprinídeos
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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Using “carpa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-R-P-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkaɾ.pɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.