patela
/pɐˈtɛlɐ/
The verdict
“patela” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,206 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,206
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - osso curto, achatado e arredondado que se localiza na parte frontal do joelho e permite a movimentação da perna
Corpus desk
Index PT-patela · patela · Portuguese
patela · rank #74,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,206
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH palmatória
Nearest frequency peer: palmatória (-11 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 “patela”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- 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
- pregunta
pregunta
25,762 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “patela” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patela |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɐˈtɛlɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “patela” em português
Rare enough to double-check
patela is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,206 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɐˈtɛlɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "osso curto, achatado e arredondado que se localiza na parte frontal do joelho e permite a movimentação da perna".
Zero misspellings are on record for patela in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is patela, spelled P-A-T-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1osso curto, achatado e arredondado que se localiza na parte frontal do joelho e permite a movimentação da perna
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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