rúcula
/ˈχu.ku.lɐ/
The verdict
“rúcula” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,461 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,461
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erva da espécie Eruca sativa usada na alimentação humana
Corpus desk
Index PT-rucula · rúcula · Portuguese
rúcula · rank #62,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,461
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH sabugueiro
Nearest frequency peer: sabugueiro (+4 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 “rúcula”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- redondamente
redondamente
37,573 corpus weight
- rococó
rococó
37,554 corpus weight
- rúcula
rúcula
37,540 corpus weight
- sabugueiro
sabugueiro
37,536 corpus weight
- Saturnino
Saturnino
37,532 corpus weight
- sublinhado
sublinhado
37,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “rúcula” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rúcula |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈχu.ku.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “rúcula” em português
Rare enough to double-check
rúcula is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,461 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈχu.ku.lɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "erva da espécie Eruca sativa usada na alimentação humana".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rúcula, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is rúcula, spelled R-Ú-C-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1erva da espécie Eruca sativa usada na alimentação humana
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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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