palmatória
/paɫ.mɐ.ˈtɔ.ɾjɐ/
The verdict
“palmatória” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,195 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,195
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequena peça circular de madeira com cinco orifícios em cruz e provida de um cabo, usado como instrumento de castigo para bater na palma da mão do castigado
Corpus desk
Index PT-palmatoria · palmatória · Portuguese
palmatória · rank #74,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,195
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH onipresença
Nearest frequency peer: onipresença (-3 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 “palmatória”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- necromante
necromante
25,834 corpus weight
- nádega
nádega
25,820 corpus weight
- onipresença
onipresença
25,809 corpus weight
- palmatória
palmatória
25,806 corpus weight
- patela
patela
25,795 corpus weight
- pleonasmo
pleonasmo
25,773 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “palmatória” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palmatória |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /paɫ.mɐ.ˈtɔ.ɾjɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “palmatória” em português
Rare enough to double-check
palmatória is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,195 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /paɫ.mɐ.ˈtɔ.ɾjɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for palmatória, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is palmatória, spelled P-A-L-M-A-T-Ó-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1pequena peça circular de madeira com cinco orifícios em cruz e provida de um cabo, usado como instrumento de castigo para bater na palma da mão do castigado
- 2espécie de castiçal baixo, geralmente de metal, com prato e cabo ou asa; bugia
- 3braçadeira metálica que prende o turco ao costado da embarcação
- 4planta angiosperma aculeada (Opuntia monacantha) da família das cactáceas, de artículos carnosos, flores amarelo-esverdeadas, com a parte inferior vermelha, ou róseas, e bagas vermelhas, aculeadas e comestíveis, nativa da Argentina e Brasil (BA ao RS), e também cultivada por propriedades sedativas; arubeba, arumbeba, arumbeva, palmatória-de-espinho, palmilha-de-papa, raqueta, urumbeba, urumbeva
Synonyms
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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