plateau
/pla.ˈto/
The verdict
“plateau” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,024 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,024
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - platô
Corpus desk
Index PT-plateau · plateau · Portuguese
plateau · rank #75,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,024
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH portada
Nearest frequency peer: portada (+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 “plateau”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pessimamente
pessimamente
24,987 corpus weight
- plateau
plateau
24,977 corpus weight
- portada
portada
24,968 corpus weight
- postiço
postiço
24,964 corpus weight
- preceder
preceder
24,963 corpus weight
- primoroso
primoroso
24,957 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “plateau” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plateau |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pla.ˈto/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “plateau” em português
Rare enough to double-check
plateau is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,024 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pla.ˈto/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "platô".
No misspelling variants are generated for plateau in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is plateau, spelled P-L-A-T-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1platô
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).