escotilha
/iʃ.ku.ˈti.ʎɐ/
The verdict
“escotilha” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,717 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,717
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alçapão ou abertura nas cobertas e porão do navio
Corpus desk
Index PT-escotilha · escotilha · Portuguese
escotilha · rank #52,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,717
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH eleve
Nearest frequency peer: eleve (-19 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 “escotilha”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- drowned
drowned
47,310 corpus weight
- eleve
eleve
47,303 corpus weight
- escotilha
escotilha
47,284 corpus weight
- exortação
exortação
47,263 corpus weight
- fault
fault
47,258 corpus weight
- ferrenha
ferrenha
47,255 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “escotilha” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escotilha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.ku.ˈti.ʎɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “escotilha” em português
Rare enough to double-check
escotilha is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,717 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /iʃ.ku.ˈti.ʎɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "alçapão ou abertura nas cobertas e porão do navio".
No generated misspelling entries exist for escotilha in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is escotilha, spelled E-S-C-O-T-I-L-H-A.
Definition
- 1alçapão ou abertura nas cobertas e porão do navio
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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