peluche
/pe."lu.Si/
The verdict
“peluche” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,050 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,050
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tecido aveludado, feito de lã, seda ou material sintético, simulando pelos felpudos de um dos lados
Corpus desk
Index PT-peluche · peluche · Portuguese
peluche · rank #54,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,050
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH passer
Nearest frequency peer: passer (-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 “peluche”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ocasionado
ocasionado
45,974 corpus weight
- ourivesaria
ourivesaria
45,967 corpus weight
- passer
passer
45,957 corpus weight
- peluche
peluche
45,951 corpus weight
- portagem
portagem
45,939 corpus weight
- prenúncio
prenúncio
45,935 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “peluche” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peluche |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pe."lu.Si/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “peluche” em português
Rare enough to double-check
peluche is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,050 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pe."lu.Si/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for peluche, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is peluche, spelled P-E-L-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1tecido aveludado, feito de lã, seda ou material sintético, simulando pelos felpudos de um dos lados
- 2boneco em formato de animal, feito desse tecido e enchido com algodão, fibra ou outro material
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).