pontilhão
The verdict
“pontilhão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,120 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,120
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequena ponte
Corpus desk
Index PT-pontilhao · pontilhão · Portuguese
pontilhão · rank #94,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,120
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH premeditação
Nearest frequency peer: premeditação (+7 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 “pontilhão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- penetrava
penetrava
5,903 corpus weight
- perfumista
perfumista
5,900 corpus weight
- pontilhão
pontilhão
5,881 corpus weight
- premeditação
premeditação
5,874 corpus weight
- psicadélico
psicadélico
5,856 corpus weight
- Publius
Publius
5,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pontilhão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pontilhão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pontilhão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pontilhão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,120 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pequena ponte".
pontilhão has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is pontilhão, spelled P-O-N-T-I-L-H-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1pequena ponte
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pontilhão appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O acidente aconteceu depois que a cinta que prendia a garota se rompeu, enquanto ela pulava de um pontilhão entre as cidades de Araguari e Uberlândia.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).