potranca
The verdict
“potranca” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,689 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,689
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - potra de menos de dois anos
Corpus desk
Index PT-potranca · potranca · Portuguese
potranca · rank #72,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,689
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH predatório
Nearest frequency peer: predatório (+3 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 “potranca”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pebolim
pebolim
27,333 corpus weight
- pointer
pointer
27,318 corpus weight
- polca
polca
27,317 corpus weight
- potranca
potranca
27,312 corpus weight
- predatório
predatório
27,309 corpus weight
- prevent
prevent
27,305 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “potranca” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potranca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “potranca” em português
Rare enough to double-check
potranca is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,689 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for potranca, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is potranca, spelled P-O-T-R-A-N-C-A.
Definition
- 1potra de menos de dois anos
- 2égua nova ainda não domada
- 3mulher jovem e provocante, de corpo bonito
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how potranca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No total, passaram pela sua coxia umas 200 potrancas até agora. A maior parte delas saiu "cheia" de Glória, jargão do mundo do turfe para prenhas.
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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