galheta
/ɡɐ.ˈʎe.tɐ/
The verdict
“galheta” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,816 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,816
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - frasco com pequeno gargalo para servir óleo ou vinagre à mesa
Corpus desk
Index PT-galheta · galheta · Portuguese
galheta · rank #94,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,816
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH garantidamente
Nearest frequency peer: garantidamente (+5 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 “galheta”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- furriel
furriel
5,191 corpus weight
- galheta
galheta
5,185 corpus weight
- garantidame…
garantidamente
5,180 corpus weight
- granted
granted
5,162 corpus weight
- grenade
grenade
5,160 corpus weight
- gust
gust
5,153 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “galheta” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galheta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɐ.ˈʎe.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “galheta” em português
Rare enough to double-check
galheta is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,816 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɐ.ˈʎe.tɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for galheta, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is galheta, spelled G-A-L-H-E-T-A.
Definition
- 1frasco com pequeno gargalo para servir óleo ou vinagre à mesa
- 2recipientes que contém a água e o vinho que serão consagrados na missa católica.
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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