ratoeira
/Rɐ.ˈtwɐj.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“ratoeira” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,399 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,399
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequena armadilha usada para apanhar ratos.
Corpus desk
Index PT-ratoeira · ratoeira · Portuguese
ratoeira · rank #52,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,399
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH Raps
Nearest frequency peer: Raps (-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 “ratoeira”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- provimento
provimento
47,618 corpus weight
- quadribol
quadribol
47,611 corpus weight
- raimunda
raimunda
47,606 corpus weight
- Raps
Raps
47,604 corpus weight
- ratoeira
ratoeira
47,602 corpus weight
- ravina
ravina
47,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ratoeira” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratoeira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Rɐ.ˈtwɐj.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ratoeira” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ratoeira is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,399 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /Rɐ.ˈtwɐj.ɾɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pequena armadilha usada para apanhar ratos.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ratoeira, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ratoeira, spelled R-A-T-O-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1pequena armadilha usada para apanhar ratos.
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.
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