iorubá
/i.o.ɾu.ˈba/, /jo.ɾu.ˈba/
The verdict
“iorubá” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,226 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,226
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relacionado aos iorubas
Corpus desk
Index PT-ioruba · iorubá · Portuguese
iorubá · rank #89,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,226
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH intransitável
Nearest frequency peer: intransitável (-3 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 “iorubá”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- incongruênc…
incongruência
10,796 corpus weight
- inteligibil…
inteligibilidade
10,784 corpus weight
- intransitáv…
intransitável
10,778 corpus weight
- iorubá
iorubá
10,775 corpus weight
- koro
koro
10,746 corpus weight
- lacração
lacração
10,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “iorubá” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iorubá |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /i.o.ɾu.ˈba/, /jo.ɾu.ˈba/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “iorubá” em português
Rare enough to double-check
iorubá is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,226 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /i.o.ɾu.ˈba/, /jo.ɾu.ˈba/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for iorubá, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is iorubá, spelled I-O-R-U-B-Á.
Definition
- 1relacionado aos iorubas
- 2relacionado ao idioma iorubano
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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