carrilhão
/kɐ.Ri.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“carrilhão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,898 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,898
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instrumento musical de percussão formado por um teclado e um conjunto de sinos de tamanhos variados, controlados pelo teclado
Corpus desk
Index PT-carrilhao · carrilhão · Portuguese
carrilhão · rank #81,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,898
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cachalote
Nearest frequency peer: cachalote (-10 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 “carrilhão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- borbulhar
borbulhar
18,128 corpus weight
- cachalote
cachalote
18,113 corpus weight
- carrilhão
carrilhão
18,103 corpus weight
- cifrão
cifrão
18,084 corpus weight
- clam
clam
18,081 corpus weight
- colagénio
colagénio
18,074 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “carrilhão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrilhão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.Ri.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “carrilhão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
carrilhão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,898 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.Ri.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "instrumento musical de percussão formado por um teclado e um conjunto de sinos de tamanhos variados, controlados pelo teclado".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carrilhão, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is carrilhão, spelled C-A-R-R-I-L-H-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1instrumento musical de percussão formado por um teclado e um conjunto de sinos de tamanhos variados, controlados pelo teclado
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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