grau
The verdict
“grau” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #2,014 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,014
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - unidade de ângulo
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grau |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grau” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for grau is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #2,014 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for grau, with forms such as "garu", "ggrau", and "grrau". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "grey", "gray", "guru", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 grau, spelled G-R-A-U.
Definition
- 1unidade de ângulo
- 2indicação do maior expoente de um polinômio
- 3nome popular da dioptria (indicação de defeito visual)
- 4indicação da flexão dos adjetivos na gramática
- 5medida de temperatura
- 6título acadêmico
- 7medida da intensidade de um sismo
- 8relação entre a tônica e as outras notas de uma escala musical
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garu,ggrau,grrau,rgau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grau - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “grau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is G-R-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “grey” - see the side-by-side comparison. grau vs grey
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.