contrabaixista
/kõ.tɾɐ.baj.ˈʃiʃ.tɐ/
The verdict
“contrabaixista” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,656 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,656
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pessoa que toca contrabaixo; baixista
Corpus desk
Index PT-contrabaixista · contrabaixista · Portuguese
contrabaixista · rank #83,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,656
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH contralto
Nearest frequency peer: contralto (+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 “contrabaixista”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- contrabaixi…
contrabaixista
16,345 corpus weight
- contralto
contralto
16,344 corpus weight
- controverti…
controvertido
16,342 corpus weight
- copeira
copeira
16,338 corpus weight
- COPOM
COPOM
16,337 corpus weight
- copular
copular
16,335 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “contrabaixista” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrabaixista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kõ.tɾɐ.baj.ˈʃiʃ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #83,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “contrabaixista” em português
Rare enough to double-check
contrabaixista is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,656 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kõ.tɾɐ.baj.ˈʃiʃ.tɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pessoa que toca contrabaixo; baixista".
No generated misspelling entries exist for contrabaixista in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is contrabaixista, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-I-X-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1pessoa que toca contrabaixo; baixista
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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