grau

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,014

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

grau is aPortuguesenoun. It means: unidade de ângulo It ranks #2,014 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with grey and gray.

Key facts for grau
PropertyValue
Headwordgrau
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,014
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grau in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for grau is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for grau, with forms such as "garu", "ggrau", and "grrau". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "grey", "gray", "guru", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 grau, spelled G-R-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    unidade de ângulo
  2. 2
    indicação do maior expoente de um polinômio
  3. 3
    nome popular da dioptria (indicação de defeito visual)
  4. 4
    indicação da flexão dos adjetivos na gramática
  5. 5
    medida de temperatura
  6. 6
    título acadêmico
  7. 7
    medida da intensidade de um sismo
  8. 8
    relação 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grau

Misspelling Variants of "grau"

garu4ggrau5grrau5rgau4
Misspelling Variants of "grau"

Frequency rank: #2,014 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grau"?
"grau" is spelled G-R-A-U.
What does "grau" mean?
As a noun, "grau" means: unidade de ângulo
What words are commonly confused with "grau"?
"grau" is commonly confused with "grey", "gray", "guru". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "grau" come from?
"grau" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.