mates
/ˈma.t͡ʃɪs/
The verdict
“mates” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,679 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,679
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural de mate
Corpus desk
Index PT-mates · mates · Portuguese
mates · rank #55,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,679
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH marry
Nearest frequency peer: marry (-4 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “mates”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- lúpulo
lúpulo
44,335 corpus weight
- marajoara
marajoara
44,328 corpus weight
- marry
marry
44,326 corpus weight
- mates
mates
44,322 corpus weight
- mensurável
mensurável
44,318 corpus weight
- monocromáti…
monocromático
44,310 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mates” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mates |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈma.t͡ʃɪs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mates” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mates is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,679 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈma.t͡ʃɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural de mate".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mates, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mates, spelled M-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural de mate
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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