carpa
/ˈkaɾ.pɐ/
The verdict
“carpa” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,389 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,389
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peixe de água doce da família dos ciprinídeos
Corpus desk
Index PT-carpa · carpa · Portuguese
carpa · rank #50,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,389
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH capuchinho
Nearest frequency peer: capuchinho (-3 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 “carpa”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cacimba
cacimba
49,624 corpus weight
- capuchinho
capuchinho
49,615 corpus weight
- carpa
carpa
49,612 corpus weight
- cautelosame…
cautelosamente
49,607 corpus weight
- cavado
cavado
49,605 corpus weight
- cegar
cegar
49,603 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “carpa” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “carpa” em português
Rare enough to double-check
carpa is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,389 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkaɾ.pɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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