poste

noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,683

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

poste is aPortuguesenoun. It means: grande e alongado cilindro de madeira, cimento ou outro material e que é usado para sustentar fios elétricos, lâmpadas, etc It ranks #7,683 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pote and posto.

Key facts for poste
PropertyValue
Headwordposte
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,683
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of poste in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for poste is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #7,683 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for poste, with forms such as "opste", "poset", and "posste". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pote", "posto", "past", 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 poste, spelled P-O-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    grande e alongado cilindro de madeira, cimento ou outro material e que é usado para sustentar fios elétricos, lâmpadas, etc
  2. 2
    trave do gol no futebol
  3. 3
    pessoa muito alta

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opste,poset,posste,postte,potse,pposte,psote

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poste

Misspelling Variants of "poste"

opste5poset5posste6postte6potse5pposte6psote5
Misspelling Variants of "poste"

Frequency rank: #7,683 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poste"?
"poste" is spelled P-O-S-T-E.
What does "poste" mean?
As a noun, "poste" means: grande e alongado cilindro de madeira, cimento ou outro material e que é usado para sustentar fios elétricos, lâmpadas, etc
What words are commonly confused with "poste"?
"poste" is commonly confused with "pote", "posto", "past". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "poste" come from?
"poste" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.