lacina
/lɐ.'θi.nɐ/ ou /lɐ.'si.nɐ/
The verdict
“lacina” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geada; gelo
Corpus desk
Index PT-lacina · lacina · Portuguese
lacina · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lacina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɐ.'θi.nɐ/ ou /lɐ.'si.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lacina” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lacina is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /lɐ.'θi.nɐ/ ou /lɐ.'si.nɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "geada; gelo".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lacina, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 lacina, spelled L-A-C-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1geada; gelo
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.