ripa
/ˈRi.pɐ/
The verdict
“ripa” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,101 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,101
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pedaço de madeira estreito e comprido
Corpus desk
Index PT-ripa · ripa · Portuguese
ripa · rank #67,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,101
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH retilíneo
Nearest frequency peer: retilíneo (-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 “ripa”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- quisto
quisto
32,923 corpus weight
- retilíneo
retilíneo
32,902 corpus weight
- ripa
ripa
32,900 corpus weight
- rítmico
rítmico
32,894 corpus weight
- secada
secada
32,888 corpus weight
- seer
seer
32,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ripa” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ripa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈRi.pɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ripa” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ripa is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,101 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈRi.pɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pedaço de madeira estreito e comprido".
ripa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 ripa, spelled R-I-P-A.
Definition
- 1pedaço de madeira estreito e comprido
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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