samba
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,598
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
samba is aPortuguesenoun. It means: dança de roda semelhante ao batuque, com dançarinos solistas e eventual presença da umbigada, difundida em todo o Brasil com variantes coreográficas e de acompanhamento instrumental Pronounced /ˈsɐ̃.bɐ/. It ranks #2,598 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with soma and suma.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | samba |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɐ̃.bɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for samba is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɐ̃.bɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,598 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for samba, with forms such as "asmba", "sabma", and "samab". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "soma", "suma", "same", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 samba, spelled S-A-M-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dança de roda semelhante ao batuque, com dançarinos solistas e eventual presença da umbigada, difundida em todo o Brasil com variantes coreográficas e de acompanhamento instrumental
- 2qualquer baile popular, urbano ou rural, onde geralmente predomina o samba como música; arrasta-pé
- 3gênero de canção popular de ritmo geralmente 2/4 e andamento variado, surgido a partir do início do século XX
- 4variedade de xiba (baile rural sapateado)
- 5aguardente de cana; tipo de cachaça
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asmba,sabma,samab,sambba,sammba,smaba,ssamba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for samba
Misspelling Variants of "samba"
Frequency rank: #2,598 in Portuguese
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