Zanzibar
The verdict
“Zanzibar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,563 among 42 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,563
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 42
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conjunto de duas ilhas do arquipélago de Zanzibar, ao largo da costa da Tanzânia, na margem leste-africana
Corpus desk
Index PT-zanzibar · Zanzibar · Portuguese
Zanzibar · rank #66,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,563
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 42
- PHOTO-FINISH verossímil
Nearest frequency peer: verossímil (-13 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 “Zanzibar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- transcontin…
transcontinental
33,466 corpus weight
- untar
untar
33,457 corpus weight
- useful
useful
33,456 corpus weight
- verossímil
verossímil
33,451 corpus weight
- Zanzibar
Zanzibar
33,438 corpus weight
- aquilino
aquilino
33,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Zanzibar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zanzibar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Zanzibar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Zanzibar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,563 among 42 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "conjunto de duas ilhas do arquipélago de Zanzibar, ao largo da costa da Tanzânia, na margem leste-africana".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Zanzibar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Zanzibar, spelled Z-A-N-Z-I-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1conjunto de duas ilhas do arquipélago de Zanzibar, ao largo da costa da Tanzânia, na margem leste-africana
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zanzibar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Interessada na história militar, acompanhou intensamente o conflito contra Zanzibar e a rebelião dos Boeres, na África do Sul.
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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