cavalete
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,774
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
cavalete is aPortuguesenoun. It means: armação triangular para sustentáculo de objetos a uma certa altura Pronounced /kɐ.vɐ.ˈle.tɨ/. Often confused with capacete.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavalete |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.vɐ.ˈle.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cavalete is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.vɐ.ˈle.tɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #47,774 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavalete, with forms such as "acvalete", "caavlete", and "cavaelte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "capacete", 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 cavalete, spelled C-A-V-A-L-E-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1armação triangular para sustentáculo de objetos a uma certa altura
- 2armação de quatro pés ligados entre si, que sustentam rigidamente um sarrafo disposto horizontalmente ligado pelos seus extremos em v invertida com os pés
- 3espécie de tripé para suporte de telas de pintura
- 4espécie de suporte para pontes
- 5instrumento de tortura
- 6suporte de cilindro móvel; barra dentada
- 7suporte que nos instrumentos de corda, eleva estas, segura-as e transmite a sua vibração à caixa acústica, ponte
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acvalete,caavlete,cavaelte,cavaleet,cavalette,cavallete,cavaltee,cavlaete,cavvalete,ccavalete,cvaalete
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cavalete
Misspelling Variants of "cavalete"
Frequency rank: #47,774 in Portuguese
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