pochete

noun

The verdict

“pochete” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,800 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,800
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,578
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequena bolsa com alça para prender em volta da cintura e ficar bem aderente ao corpo

Corpus desk

Index PT-pochete · pochete · Portuguese

pochete · rank #51,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,800
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,578
  • PHOTO-FINISH planador

Nearest frequency peer: planador (-1 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 “pochete”

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pochete
PropertyValue
Headwordpochete
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#51,800
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “pochete” em português

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

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

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “planador” (#51,799), “potato” (#51,803), “pipocar” (#51,795). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “pochete” fica em #51,800. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pochete is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,800 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pequena bolsa com alça para prender em volta da cintura e ficar bem aderente ao corpo".

pochete has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 pochete, spelled P-O-C-H-E-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    pequena bolsa com alça para prender em volta da cintura e ficar bem aderente ao corpo

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Uma denúncia anônima ao 190 indicou que dois rapazes com pochete e mochila vendiam maconha e cocaína numa viela na Rua Serra de Botucatu, altura do nº 1900, e policiais do 8º Batalhão Metropolitano organizaram um cerco no local.

This word in other languages

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 "pochete"?
"pochete" is spelled P-O-C-H-E-T-E.
What does "pochete" mean?
As a noun, "pochete" means: pequena bolsa com alça para prender em volta da cintura e ficar bem aderente ao corpo
What language does "pochete" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list