glote
/ˈɡlɔ.tɨ/
The verdict
“glote” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #92,868 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,868
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abertura triangular na parte mais estreita da laringe, circunscrita pelas duas pregas vocais inferiores, com cerca de 16 mm de comprimento e abertura máxima de cerca de 12 mm
Corpus desk
Index PT-glote · glote · Portuguese
glote · rank #92,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,868
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH godo
Nearest frequency peer: godo (+1 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 “glote”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fracionário
fracionário
7,157 corpus weight
- Gandu
Gandu
7,144 corpus weight
- glote
glote
7,133 corpus weight
- godo
godo
7,132 corpus weight
- haveremos
haveremos
7,111 corpus weight
- hortaliça
hortaliça
7,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “glote” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glote |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡlɔ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “glote” em português
Rare enough to double-check
glote is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #92,868 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡlɔ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glote, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 glote, spelled G-L-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1abertura triangular na parte mais estreita da laringe, circunscrita pelas duas pregas vocais inferiores, com cerca de 16 mm de comprimento e abertura máxima de cerca de 12 mm
- 2espaço compreendido entre as pregas vocais e que, durante a respiração (e a articulação das consoantes surdas e das aspiradas), tem forma triangular, fechando-se na produção das vogais, das consoantes sonoras e dos glides, quando o fluxo de ar, ao passar através das pregas vocais levemente relaxadas, ocasiona a sua vibração, a que se dá o nome de voz ou sonoridade
Synonyms
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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