carpa

/ˈkaɾ.pɐ/

//ˈkaɾ.pɐ// noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “carpa” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for carpa
PropertyValue
Headwordcarpa
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈkaɾ.pɐ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#50,389
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “carpa” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).carpacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “capuchinho” (#50,386), “cautelosamente” (#50,394), “cavado” (#50,396). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “carpa” fica em #50,389. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    peixe 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carpa"?
"carpa" is spelled C-A-R-P-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈkaɾ.pɐ/.
What does "carpa" mean?
As a noun, "carpa" means: peixe de água doce da família dos ciprinídeos
How do you pronounce "carpa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carpa" is /ˈkaɾ.pɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carpa" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carpa", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list