hauteur
/o.tœʁ/
The verdict
“hauteur” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - altura:
Corpus desk
Index PT-hauteur · hauteur · Portuguese
hauteur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | hauteur |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /o.tœʁ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “hauteur” em português
Rare enough to double-check
hauteur is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /o.tœʁ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hauteur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is hauteur, spelled H-A-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1altura:
- 2altitude
- 3altura, localização de um ponto em certo espaço:
- 4profundidade:
- 5altura, elevação
- 6altura, menor distância de um ponto até uma linha ou plano
- 7altura, intensidade da frequência de um som:
- 8superioridade, grandeza
- 9arrogância, soberba, orgulho
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hauteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les eaux s'élevèrent à une hauteur considérable.
Cet oiseau vole à une très grande hauteur.
Synonyms
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.