galé
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,524
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
galé is aPortuguesenoun. It means: embarcação comprida e estreita, de baixo bordo, com duas velas acessórias, mas impelida basicamente por remos, que foi usado desde a Antiguidade grega até os fins do século XVIII Pronounced /ɡɐ.ˈlɛ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galé |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɐ.ˈlɛ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for galé is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɡɐ.ˈlɛ/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,524 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for galé in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 galé, spelled G-A-L-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1embarcação comprida e estreita, de baixo bordo, com duas velas acessórias, mas impelida basicamente por remos, que foi usado desde a Antiguidade grega até os fins do século XVIII
- 2lâmina retangular, geralmente de metal, com rebordos em três de seus lados, sobre a qual o tipógrafo coloca as linhas que tira do componedor, para formar o granel ou a chapa, ou para fazer a paginação
- 3(Diacronismo: antigo) pessoa condenada a trabalhos forçados (remar) a bordo dos navios desse nome
Frequency rank: #50,524 in Portuguese
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "galé"?
What does "galé" mean?
How do you pronounce "galé"?
What language does "galé" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Portuguese index: