pratinho
The verdict
“pratinho” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #65,727 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,727
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: diminutivo de prato
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pratinho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾaˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲu/ [pɾaˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃u] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pratinho” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pratinho is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɾaˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲu/ [pɾaˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃u]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,727 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "diminutivo de prato".
No misspelling variants are generated for pratinho in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pratinho, spelled P-R-A-T-I-N-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1diminutivo de prato
Frequency rank: #65,727 in Portuguese
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Using “pratinho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-A-T-I-N-H-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɾaˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲu/ [pɾaˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃u] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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