patada
/paˈta.dɐ/
The verdict
“patada” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,681 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,681
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chute ou soco dado com a pata
Corpus desk
Index PT-patada · patada · Portuguese
patada · rank #67,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,681
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH percevejo
Nearest frequency peer: percevejo (+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 “patada”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- patada
patada
32,320 corpus weight
- percevejo
percevejo
32,312 corpus weight
- pez
pez
32,310 corpus weight
- plank
plank
32,307 corpus weight
- plutónio
plutónio
32,306 corpus weight
- Polka
Polka
32,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “patada” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /paˈta.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “patada” em português
Rare enough to double-check
patada is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,681 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /paˈta.dɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "chute ou soco dado com a pata".
patada has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is patada, spelled P-A-T-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1chute ou soco dado com a pata
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how patada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O canguru deu uma patada para defender o seu filhote.
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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