platô
The verdict
“platô” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #45,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,020
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o disco, numa embreagem a disco, causador da transmissão da força do motor até as rodas de tração
Corpus desk
Index PT-plato · platô · Portuguese
platô · rank #45,020 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,020
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH polaca
Nearest frequency peer: polaca (+1 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “platô”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- patinar
patinar
54,992 corpus weight
- platô
platô
54,981 corpus weight
- polaca
polaca
54,980 corpus weight
- procriar
procriar
54,972 corpus weight
- propiciar
propiciar
54,970 corpus weight
- prorrogado
prorrogado
54,969 corpus weight
What this shows “platô” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | platô |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “platô”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around platô, anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,020 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for platô, with forms such as "lpatô", "paltô", and "plattô". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "play", "puto", "ponto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is platô, spelled P-L-A-T-Ô.
Definition
- 1o disco, numa embreagem a disco, causador da transmissão da força do motor até as rodas de tração
- 2terreno elevado e plano com pequenas elevações; planalto
- 3local dentro de uma edificação que é utilizado para se realizar gravação audiovisual
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how platô appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comunicação audiovisual: gêneros e formatos
As duas integrantes do reality show não se restringiam à bancada; caminhavam pelo platô de minissaia.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpatô
- paltô
- plattô
- plaôt
- pllatô
- pltaô
- pplatô
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of platô - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).