espora
/iʃ.ˈpɔ.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“espora” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,245 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,245
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instrumento de metal que se adapta à parte posterior do calçado, para estimular a besta em que se monta
Corpus desk
Index PT-espora · espora · Portuguese
espora · rank #70,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,245
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH estofo
Nearest frequency peer: estofo (+4 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 “espora”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- dosar
dosar
29,788 corpus weight
- efedrina
efedrina
29,781 corpus weight
- embaraçado
embaraçado
29,775 corpus weight
- espora
espora
29,756 corpus weight
- estofo
estofo
29,752 corpus weight
- farpa
farpa
29,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “espora” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espora |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.ˈpɔ.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “espora” em português
Rare enough to double-check
espora is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,245 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /iʃ.ˈpɔ.ɾɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for espora, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is espora, spelled E-S-P-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1instrumento de metal que se adapta à parte posterior do calçado, para estimular a besta em que se monta
- 2incitamento, estímulo
- 3planta ranunculácea
- 4flor dessa planta
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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