slate
The verdict
“slate” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,020 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,020
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ardósia
Corpus desk
Index PT-slate · slate · Portuguese
slate · rank #60,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,020
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH Sommer
Nearest frequency peer: Sommer (+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 “slate”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- slate
slate
39,981 corpus weight
- Sommer
Sommer
39,974 corpus weight
- subentendido
subentendido
39,966 corpus weight
- sucks
sucks
39,961 corpus weight
- sudoku
sudoku
39,959 corpus weight
- sórdido
sórdido
39,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “slate” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slate |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “slate” em português
Rare enough to double-check
slate is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,020 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
slate doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 slate, spelled S-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1ardósia
- 2lousa
- 3cor de ardósia
- 4caderno de dívidas, conta
- 5lista de candidatos afiliados para uma eleição
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how slate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Put it on my slate, I’ll pay you next week.
Coloque isso na minha conta, irei pagar semana que vem.
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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