gratinar
/ɡɾɐ.ti.ˈnaɾ/
The verdict
“gratinar” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tostar no forno a superfície superior de uma preparação culinária, geralmente coberta de queijo ralado, pão ralado ou creme
Corpus desk
Index PT-gratinar · gratinar · Portuguese
gratinar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gratinar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡɾɐ.ti.ˈnaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gratinar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gratinar is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ɡɾɐ.ti.ˈnaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tostar no forno a superfície superior de uma preparação culinária, geralmente coberta de queijo ralado, pão ralado ou creme".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gratinar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 gratinar, spelled G-R-A-T-I-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1tostar no forno a superfície superior de uma preparação culinária, geralmente coberta de queijo ralado, pão ralado ou creme
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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.