cloaca
/klu.ˈa.kɐ/
The verdict
“cloaca” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,440 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,440
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - reto dos répteis e aves
Corpus desk
Index PT-cloaca · cloaca · Portuguese
cloaca · rank #55,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,440
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH celeuma
Nearest frequency peer: celeuma (-9 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 “cloaca”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- catita
catita
44,574 corpus weight
- cedência
cedência
44,571 corpus weight
- celeuma
celeuma
44,570 corpus weight
- cloaca
cloaca
44,561 corpus weight
- confeccionar
confeccionar
44,550 corpus weight
- contrabalan…
contrabalançar
44,546 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cloaca” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloaca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /klu.ˈa.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cloaca” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cloaca is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,440 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /klu.ˈa.kɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cloaca in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is cloaca, spelled C-L-O-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1reto dos répteis e aves
- 2local para receber dejetos; fossa, privada
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.
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