castra
The verdict
“castra” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #95,524 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,524
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - acampamento.
Corpus desk
Index PT-castra · castra · Portuguese
castra · rank #95,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,524
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH carreras
Nearest frequency peer: carreras (-2 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 “castra”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- caiana
caiana
4,494 corpus weight
- carreras
carreras
4,479 corpus weight
- castra
castra
4,477 corpus weight
- cateto
cateto
4,474 corpus weight
- chambre
chambre
4,462 corpus weight
- chupões
chupões
4,455 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “castra” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “castra” em português
Rare enough to double-check
castra is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #95,524 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for castra in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is castra, spelled C-A-S-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1acampamento.
- 2fortificação.
- 3trincheiras.
- 4fosso, circunvalação.
- 5dia de marcha.
- 6serviço militar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how castra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nota: Só é usado no plural.
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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