oiça

noun

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The verdict

“oiça” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,505 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,505
frequency rank, Portuguese
385
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ouvido

Corpus desk

Index PT-oica · oiça · Portuguese

oiça · rank #81,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,505
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 385
  • PHOTO-FINISH nêutron

Nearest frequency peer: nêutron (-6 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 “oiça”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “oiça” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for oiça
PropertyValue
Headwordoiça
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#81,505
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “oiça” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).oiçacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “nêutron” (#81,499), “morcela” (#81,472), “philosophy” (#81,540). Entre 385 lemas com “O”, “oiça” fica em #81,505. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

oiça is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,505 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ouvido".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for oiça, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is oiça, spelled O-I-Ç-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    ouvido

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how oiça appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 26 poetas hoje

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "oiça"?
"oiça" is spelled O-I-Ç-A.
What does "oiça" mean?
As a noun, "oiça" means: ouvido
What language does "oiça" come from?
"oiça" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "oiça", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hier#81,340deny#81,140clam#81,920cear#81,065

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list