grau

noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“grau” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,014) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#2,014
frequency rank, Portuguese
521
“G” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unidade de ângulo

Corpus desk

Index PT-grau · grau · Portuguese

grau · rank #2,014 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,014
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 521
  • PHOTO-FINISH inferno

Nearest frequency peer: inferno (+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.

Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “grau”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “grau” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

grau vs grey
50% similar
grau vs gray
75% similar
grau vs guru
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “grau”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).graucai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “inferno” (#2,015), “fomos” (#2,012), “le” (#2,016). Entre 521 lemas com “G”, “grau” fica em #2,014. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for grau is neighbouring look-alikes ("grey", "gray", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #2,014 among 521 “G” headwords. 8 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

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

  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

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how grau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Um círculo tem 360 graus.
  2. A expressão "ax² + bx + c" é um polinômio de segundo grau.

This word in other languages

degree(English)grado(Español)degré(Français)Grad(Deutsch)

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.

garu2ggrau1grrau1rgau2
Edit distance from "grau"

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.

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?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grau", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

zero#2,031ódio#2,032anda#2,033Paul#1,985

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list