paulada
/paw.ˈla.dɐ/
The verdict
“paulada” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,932 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,932
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - golpe dado com um pedaço de pau
Corpus desk
Index PT-paulada · paulada · Portuguese
paulada · rank #59,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,932
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pando
Nearest frequency peer: pando (-5 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 “paulada”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- obstinação
obstinação
40,085 corpus weight
- oxygen
oxygen
40,078 corpus weight
- pando
pando
40,074 corpus weight
- paulada
paulada
40,069 corpus weight
- phase
phase
40,058 corpus weight
- pocilga
pocilga
40,053 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “paulada” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paulada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /paw.ˈla.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “paulada” em português
Rare enough to double-check
paulada is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,932 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /paw.ˈla.dɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "golpe dado com um pedaço de pau".
Zero misspellings are on record for paulada in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is paulada, spelled P-A-U-L-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1golpe dado com um pedaço de pau
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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