balaústre
/bɐ.lɐ.ˈuʃ.tɾɨ/
The verdict
“balaústre” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elemento de ornamentação muito usado em arquitetura como suporte de uma estrutura
Corpus desk
Index PT-balaustre · balaústre · Portuguese
balaústre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balaústre |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.lɐ.ˈuʃ.tɾɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “balaústre” em português
Rare enough to double-check
balaústre is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɐ.lɐ.ˈuʃ.tɾɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
balaústre has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, 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 balaústre, spelled B-A-L-A-Ú-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1elemento de ornamentação muito usado em arquitetura como suporte de uma estrutura
- 2conjunto de ferros fixados dentro de um ônibus ou composição ferroviária para que pessoas transportadas se segurem, de modo a não serem derrubadas pelo movimento do veículo ao se deslocar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balaústre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Acima dos assentos havia uma linha de balaústres espiralados de fitas. Em cada balaústre um escudo com o nome de um pedagogo célebre.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.