glosa
/ˈɡlɔ.zɐ/
The verdict
“glosa” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #89,149 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #89,149
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - nota explicativa, sobre as palavras ou sentido de um texto, e escrita de ordinário à margem
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glosa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡlɔ.zɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glosa” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for glosa is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡlɔ.zɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #89,149 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glosa, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 glosa, spelled G-L-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1nota explicativa, sobre as palavras ou sentido de um texto, e escrita de ordinário à margem
- 2interpretação; comentário
- 3censura
- 4forma de poema utilizada pelos poetas do Nordeste do Brasil, principalmente os cantadores, em forma de uma ou mais décimas (estrofe de 10 versos) que respondem a um desafio, expresso em forma de mote
Synonyms
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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Using “glosa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is G-L-O-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɡlɔ.zɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.