prelo
The verdict
“prelo” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #68,380 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #68,380
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: máquina de impressão tipográfica; prensa
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prelo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prelo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for prelo is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #68,380 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "máquina de impressão tipográfica; prensa".
No misspelling variants are generated for prelo 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 prelo, spelled P-R-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1máquina de impressão tipográfica; prensa
Frequency rank: #68,380 in Portuguese
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Using “prelo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-E-L-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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