rolinha

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#75,892

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

rolinha is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome comum dado a várias espécies de aves columbiformes de pequeno porte, especialmente do gênero Columbina, como a rolinha-roxa (Columbina talpacoti) e a rolinha-picui (Columbina picui)

Key facts for rolinha
PropertyValue
Headwordrolinha
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#75,892
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rolinha in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for rolinha is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #75,892 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rolinha in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is rolinha, spelled R-O-L-I-N-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    nome comum dado a várias espécies de aves columbiformes de pequeno porte, especialmente do gênero Columbina, como a rolinha-roxa (Columbina talpacoti) e a rolinha-picui (Columbina picui)
  2. 2
    termo afetivo ou poético usado para se referir a uma pomba ou ave delicada

Frequency rank: #75,892 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rolinha"?
"rolinha" is spelled R-O-L-I-N-H-A.
What does "rolinha" mean?
As a noun, "rolinha" means: nome comum dado a várias espécies de aves columbiformes de pequeno porte, especialmente do gênero Columbina, como a rolinha-roxa (Columbina talpacoti) e a rolinha-picui (Columbina picui)
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.