chalana
/tʃaˈla.na/
The verdict
“chalana” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #93,592 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,592
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - embarcação a remo de dimensões reduzidas, formato quase quadrada e fundo plano
Corpus desk
Index PT-chalana · chalana · Portuguese
chalana · rank #93,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,592
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH charanga
Nearest frequency peer: charanga (+4 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 “chalana”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- carreto
carreto
6,422 corpus weight
- catequizar
catequizar
6,419 corpus weight
- chalana
chalana
6,409 corpus weight
- charanga
charanga
6,405 corpus weight
- charlot
charlot
6,404 corpus weight
- ciclagem
ciclagem
6,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “chalana” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chalana |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tʃaˈla.na/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “chalana” em português
Rare enough to double-check
chalana is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #93,592 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tʃaˈla.na/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "embarcação a remo de dimensões reduzidas, formato quase quadrada e fundo plano".
chalana doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is chalana, spelled C-H-A-L-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1embarcação a remo de dimensões reduzidas, formato quase quadrada e fundo plano
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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