pave
The verdict
“pave” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,971 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,971
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pavimentar
Corpus desk
Index PT-pave · pave · Portuguese
pave · rank #84,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,971
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH Pentecoste
Nearest frequency peer: Pentecoste (+6 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 “pave”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- odi
odi
15,063 corpus weight
- pantanoso
pantanoso
15,041 corpus weight
- pave
pave
15,030 corpus weight
- Pentecoste
Pentecoste
15,024 corpus weight
- personalizá…
personalizável
15,017 corpus weight
- pornography
pornography
15,005 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pave” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pave |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pave” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pave is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,971 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pavimentar".
No misspelling variants are generated for pave in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is pave, spelled P-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1pavimentar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The road to hell is not always paved with well-meaning intentions only; some of its paving stones can be spite, venality, cowardice, impudence and what not.
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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