coala
/ˈkwa.lɐ/
The verdict
“coala” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,766 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,766
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mamífero marsupial pertencente à família Phascolarctidae, possui pelo cinza e branco, vive no Sudeste e Nordeste da Austrália
Corpus desk
Index PT-coala · coala · Portuguese
coala · rank #53,766 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,766
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cocheiro
Nearest frequency peer: cocheiro (+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 “coala”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- claustrofob…
claustrofobia
46,239 corpus weight
- clico
clico
46,237 corpus weight
- coala
coala
46,235 corpus weight
- cocheiro
cocheiro
46,234 corpus weight
- comet
comet
46,232 corpus weight
- comover
comover
46,230 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “coala” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coala |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwa.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “coala” em português
Rare enough to double-check
coala is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,766 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkwa.lɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mamífero marsupial pertencente à família Phascolarctidae, possui pelo cinza e branco, vive no Sudeste e Nordeste da Austrália".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coala, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is coala, spelled C-O-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1mamífero marsupial pertencente à família Phascolarctidae, possui pelo cinza e branco, vive no Sudeste e Nordeste da Austrália
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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