charrua
/ʃɐ.ˈRu.ɐ/
The verdict
“charrua” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,126 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,126
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - arado grande
Corpus desk
Index PT-charrua · charrua · Portuguese
charrua · rank #70,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,126
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH chiar
Nearest frequency peer: chiar (+1 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 “charrua”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- carão
carão
29,887 corpus weight
- castanheiro
castanheiro
29,885 corpus weight
- ceifa
ceifa
29,882 corpus weight
- charrua
charrua
29,875 corpus weight
- chiar
chiar
29,874 corpus weight
- cinzel
cinzel
29,871 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “charrua” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charrua |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɐ.ˈRu.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “charrua” em português
Rare enough to double-check
charrua is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,126 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʃɐ.ˈRu.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for charrua in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is charrua, spelled C-H-A-R-R-U-A.
Definition
- 1arado grande
- 2antigo navio de três mastros
- 3automóvel ou barco lento
- 4relativo aos Charruas, tribo indígena do Sul do Brasil
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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