balaústre

/bɐ.lɐ.ˈuʃ.tɾɨ/

//bɐ.lɐ.ˈuʃ.tɾɨ// noun

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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 May 6, 2026) - elemento de ornamentação muito usado em arquitetura como suporte de uma estrutura

Key facts for balaústre
PropertyValue
Headwordbalaústre
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/bɐ.lɐ.ˈuʃ.tɾɨ/
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “balaústre” sits in Portuguese frequency

balaústre falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    elemento de ornamentação muito usado em arquitetura como suporte de uma estrutura
  2. 2
    conjunto 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

This word in other languages

baluster(English)balaustre(Español)balustre(Français)Baluster(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "balaústre"?
"balaústre" is spelled B-A-L-A-Ú-S-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is /bɐ.lɐ.ˈuʃ.tɾɨ/.
What does "balaústre" mean?
As a noun, "balaústre" means: elemento de ornamentação muito usado em arquitetura como suporte de uma estrutura
How do you pronounce "balaústre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "balaústre" is /bɐ.lɐ.ˈuʃ.tɾɨ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "balaústre" come from?
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Using “balaústre”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-A-L-A-Ú-S-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /bɐ.lɐ.ˈuʃ.tɾɨ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list