rotta
/ˈrɔhta/
The verdict
“rotta” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,689 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,689
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ratazana
Corpus desk
Index PT-rotta · rotta · Portuguese
rotta · rank #76,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,689
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH selecionador
Nearest frequency peer: selecionador (+15 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 “rotta”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pujante
pujante
23,367 corpus weight
- regaço
regaço
23,341 corpus weight
- rotta
rotta
23,312 corpus weight
- selecionador
selecionador
23,297 corpus weight
- snatch
snatch
23,281 corpus weight
- sonoplastia
sonoplastia
23,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “rotta” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈrɔhta/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “rotta” em português
Rare enough to double-check
rotta is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,689 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈrɔhta/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ratazana".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rotta, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is rotta, spelled R-O-T-T-A.
Definition
- 1ratazana
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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