escama
/iʃ.ˈkɐ.mɐ/
The verdict
“escama” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,913 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,913
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estrutura óssea ou de queratina formada pela pele de muitos animais, como órgão de proteção
Corpus desk
Index PT-escama · escama · Portuguese
escama · rank #57,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,913
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esguio
Nearest frequency peer: esguio (+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 “escama”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- encenador
encenador
42,100 corpus weight
- epitelial
epitelial
42,094 corpus weight
- escama
escama
42,088 corpus weight
- esguio
esguio
42,087 corpus weight
- ferrenho
ferrenho
42,071 corpus weight
- filologia
filologia
42,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “escama” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escama |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.ˈkɐ.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “escama” em português
Rare enough to double-check
escama is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,913 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /iʃ.ˈkɐ.mɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
escama doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 escama, spelled E-S-C-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1estrutura óssea ou de queratina formada pela pele de muitos animais, como órgão de proteção
- 2forma do gelo usada em choperias.
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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