peladovsplatôWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: pelado is a adjective, platô is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“pelado” is an adjective and “platô” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#17,601
“pelado” frequency rank
#45,020
“platô” frequency rank
62621
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pelado platô
Definition sem pelo o disco, numa embreagem a disco, causador da transmissão da força do motor até as rodas de tração

Letter map: pelado vs platô

Shared letters muted; letters that set pelado and platô apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. pelado runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against platô's 5 (CCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
pelado
5 ch
platô

Role in the sentence - pelado and platô

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: pelado is anadjective and platôanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62621, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pelado is recorded at frequency rank #17,601, classified as anadj, pronounced /pe.ˈla.du/. platô is at rank #45,020, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 62621, this pair ranks #6,574 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of pelado vs platô

Shared letters: alp. Private to "pelado": deo. Private to "platô": tô.

"pelado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "platô" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pelado ← eplado · pealdo · peladdo · pelaod · peldao · pellado · pleado · ppelado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "pelado" for "platô" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "pelado" is an adjective and "platô" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "pelado" vs "platô" - which ranks higher?
"pelado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,601 in our Portuguese list, against #45,020 for "platô". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "pelado" and "platô". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "pelado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "platô" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #6,574 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pelado" and "platô" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "platô vs Pluto". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #6,574 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list