ratazana
/xa.ta.ˈzã.nə/
The verdict
“ratazana” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,730 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,730
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome genérico para todos os mamíferos da família Muridae, da sub-família Murinae e do género Rattus (Rattus sp.)
Corpus desk
Index PT-ratazana · ratazana · Portuguese
ratazana · rank #50,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,730
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH realce
Nearest frequency peer: realce (+2 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 “ratazana”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- possuídos
possuídos
49,292 corpus weight
- quilometrag…
quilometragem
49,277 corpus weight
- ratazana
ratazana
49,271 corpus weight
- realce
realce
49,269 corpus weight
- remeter
remeter
49,260 corpus weight
- requerente
requerente
49,255 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ratazana” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratazana |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /xa.ta.ˈzã.nə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ratazana” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ratazana is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,730 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /xa.ta.ˈzã.nə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ratazana in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ratazana, spelled R-A-T-A-Z-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1nome genérico para todos os mamíferos da família Muridae, da sub-família Murinae e do género Rattus (Rattus sp.)
- 2pessoa divertida ou ridícula
- 3ladrão ou ladra
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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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