soalho
/ˈswa.ʎu/
The verdict
“soalho” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,639 among 2,603 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,639
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,603
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - pavimento de madeira
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soalho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈswa.ʎu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “soalho” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
soalho is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,639 among 2,603 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈswa.ʎu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for soalho in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 soalho, spelled S-O-A-L-H-O.
Definition
- 1pavimento de madeira
- 2sobrado
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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Using “soalho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-O-A-L-H-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈswa.ʎu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.