cucaracha
/kukaˈɾat͡ʃa/
The verdict
“cucaracha” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,564 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,564
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - barata
Corpus desk
Index PT-cucaracha · cucaracha · Portuguese
cucaracha · rank #97,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,564
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH crux
Nearest frequency peer: crux (-2 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 “cucaracha”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- consciencio…
conscienciologia
2,457 corpus weight
- copista
copista
2,450 corpus weight
- crux
crux
2,439 corpus weight
- cucaracha
cucaracha
2,437 corpus weight
- curandeiris…
curandeirismo
2,429 corpus weight
- curetagem
curetagem
2,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cucaracha” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cucaracha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kukaˈɾat͡ʃa/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cucaracha” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cucaracha is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,564 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kukaˈɾat͡ʃa/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "barata".
cucaracha has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 cucaracha, spelled C-U-C-A-R-A-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1barata
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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