pontão
/pon.'toŋ/ ou /pʊn.'toŋ/
The verdict
“pontão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,133 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,133
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cada um dos dois paus fortes que formam uma espécie de ponte simples para passar um pequeno ribeiro
Corpus desk
Index PT-pontao · pontão · Portuguese
pontão · rank #58,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,133
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH predação
Nearest frequency peer: predação (+2 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 “pontão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Pindorama
Pindorama
41,882 corpus weight
- piro
piro
41,880 corpus weight
- pontão
pontão
41,868 corpus weight
- predação
predação
41,866 corpus weight
- pretensamen…
pretensamente
41,863 corpus weight
- privilegiar
privilegiar
41,861 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pontão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pontão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pon.'toŋ/ ou /pʊn.'toŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pontão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pontão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,133 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pon.'toŋ/ ou /pʊn.'toŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 10 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pontão in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is pontão, spelled P-O-N-T-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1cada um dos dois paus fortes que formam uma espécie de ponte simples para passar um pequeno ribeiro
- 2pequena ponte
- 3na armação do teto, telhado ou piso de uma casa, vigota, madeiro que vai de trave a trave
- 4viga que descansa longitudinalmente sobre o muro ou parede e que recebe e reparte o peso das traves
- 5sarrafão, barrote
- 6nas lareiras tradicionais, trave forte da que pendura a gramalheira
- 7cada um dos dois postes verticais que formam o marco de uma cancela
- 8pau grosso que serve de esteio, poste para apoio e sustento
- 9barco fluvial de fundo plano
- 10navio militar sem propulsão, em geral fundeado, a servir de depósito, paiol, arrecadação, etc.
Synonyms
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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