llama
/ˈʎa.ma/
The verdict
“llama” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,624 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,624
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lama/lhama (Lama glama):
Corpus desk
Index PT-llama · llama · Portuguese
llama · rank #86,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,624
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lusitanas
Nearest frequency peer: lusitanas (+8 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 “llama”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- kuka
kuka
13,401 corpus weight
- lacraia
lacraia
13,399 corpus weight
- llama
llama
13,377 corpus weight
- lusitanas
lusitanas
13,369 corpus weight
- madrugar
madrugar
13,364 corpus weight
- Malachi
Malachi
13,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “llama” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | llama |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʎa.ma/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “llama” em português
Rare enough to double-check
llama is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,624 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈʎa.ma/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for llama in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 llama, spelled L-L-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1lama/lhama (Lama glama):
- 2chama
- 3lamê
- 4lâmina, chapa
- 5lâmina de arma branca
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how llama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hi ha criatura de llames, ovelles i cabres.
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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