adelgaçar
/ɐ.dɛɫ.ɡɐ.ˈsaɾ/
The verdict
“adelgaçar” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tornar delgado
Corpus desk
Index PT-adelgacar · adelgaçar · Portuguese
adelgaçar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adelgaçar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.dɛɫ.ɡɐ.ˈsaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “adelgaçar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
adelgaçar is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐ.dɛɫ.ɡɐ.ˈsaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adelgaçar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is adelgaçar, spelled A-D-E-L-G-A-Ç-A-R.
Definition
- 1tornar delgado
- 2desbastar
- 3desengrossar
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.