pale
/peIl/
The verdict
“pale” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,514) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,514
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pálido, claro, descorado
Corpus desk
Index PT-pale · pale · Portuguese
pale · rank #45,514 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,514
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH onion
Nearest frequency peer: onion (-7 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 “pale”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- oceanografia
oceanografia
54,501 corpus weight
- onion
onion
54,494 corpus weight
- pale
pale
54,487 corpus weight
- pilão
pilão
54,479 corpus weight
- polémico
polémico
54,470 corpus weight
- polígono
polígono
54,469 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “pale” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | pale |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /peIl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “pale”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pale is neighbouring look-alikes ("pé", "paz", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /peIl/. Frequency #45,514 among 1,578 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pale, with forms such as "pael", "palle", and "plae". 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, "pé", "paz", "pão", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is pale, spelled P-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1pálido, claro, descorado
- 2fraco, abatido
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pael
- palle
- plae
- ppale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pale - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).