pelouro
/pɨ.ˈlow.ɾu/
The verdict
“pelouro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #82,325 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,325
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bola de metal empregada antigamente em peças de artilharia
Corpus desk
Index PT-pelouro · pelouro · Portuguese
pelouro · rank #82,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,325
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH parêntese
Nearest frequency peer: parêntese (-9 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 “pelouro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- oceanógrafo
oceanógrafo
17,705 corpus weight
- ordenhar
ordenhar
17,699 corpus weight
- parent
parent
17,687 corpus weight
- parêntese
parêntese
17,685 corpus weight
- pelouro
pelouro
17,676 corpus weight
- pulha
pulha
17,641 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pelouro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelouro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨ.ˈlow.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pelouro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pelouro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #82,325 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɨ.ˈlow.ɾu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pelouro, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is pelouro, spelled P-E-L-O-U-R-O.
Definition
- 1bola de metal empregada antigamente em peças de artilharia
- 2cada um dos ramos da administração municipal que estão a cargo de um vereador
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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