cumbia
The verdict
“cumbia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,470 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,470
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o mesmo que cúmbia
Corpus desk
Index PT-cumbia · cumbia · Portuguese
cumbia · rank #85,470 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,470
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH crueza
Nearest frequency peer: crueza (-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 “cumbia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- crave
crave
14,537 corpus weight
- crueza
crueza
14,533 corpus weight
- cumbia
cumbia
14,531 corpus weight
- curro
curro
14,529 corpus weight
- cântaro
cântaro
14,524 corpus weight
- debilitar
debilitar
14,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cumbia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cumbia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cumbia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cumbia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,470 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "o mesmo que cúmbia".
cumbia has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 cumbia, spelled C-U-M-B-I-A.
Definition
- 1o mesmo que cúmbia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cumbia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Grafia pouquíssimo utilizada
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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