escopeta
/ɛs.kɔ.'pɛ.ta/.
The verdict
“escopeta” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,296 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,296
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - espingarda antiga e curta, de carregar pela culatra
Corpus desk
Index PT-escopeta · escopeta · Portuguese
escopeta · rank #57,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,296
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esporão
Nearest frequency peer: esporão (+5 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 “escopeta”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- embriologia
embriologia
42,716 corpus weight
- escopeta
escopeta
42,705 corpus weight
- esporão
esporão
42,700 corpus weight
- estorvo
estorvo
42,695 corpus weight
- evitável
evitável
42,691 corpus weight
- faringe
faringe
42,685 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “escopeta” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escopeta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɛs.kɔ.'pɛ.ta/. |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “escopeta” em português
Rare enough to double-check
escopeta is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,296 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɛs.kɔ.'pɛ.ta/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for escopeta in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is escopeta, spelled E-S-C-O-P-E-T-A.
Definition
- 1espingarda antiga e curta, de carregar pela culatra
- 2tiro dessa espingarda
Synonyms
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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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