platina
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,839
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
platina is aPortuguesenoun. It means: elemento químico de símbolo Pt, possui o número atômico 78 e massa atômica relativa 195,078 u; é um metal de transição, branco acinzentado; é obtida em conjunto com minérios ricos em sulfureto de c... Pronounced /plɐ.ˈti.nɐ/. Often confused with prática and plata.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | platina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /plɐ.ˈti.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for platina is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /plɐ.ˈti.nɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #16,839 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for platina, with forms such as "lpatina", "paltina", and "plaitna". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "prática", "plata", "página", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is platina, spelled P-L-A-T-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1elemento químico de símbolo Pt, possui o número atômico 78 e massa atômica relativa 195,078 u; é um metal de transição, branco acinzentado; é obtida em conjunto com minérios ricos em sulfureto de cobre-níquel, associados às rochas vulcânicas; utilizada como catalisador de reações químicas, em eletrodos não reativos nos processos eletrolíticos, na fabricação de equipamentos cirúrgicos, implantes ortopédicos e em joias
- 2presilha que prende as correias usadas por soldados da infantaria
- 3peça metálica, forrada de pano, usada no peito ou nos ombros do uniforme, onde se fixam os galões ou as divisas que indicam o posto ou a graduação dos oficiais militares
- 4referente à bacia ou ao rio do Prata
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpatina,paltina,plaitna,platian,platinna,platnia,plattina,pllatina,pltaina,pplatina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for platina
Misspelling Variants of "platina"
Frequency rank: #16,839 in Portuguese
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