adestrar
/ɐ.dɨʃ.ˈtɾaɾ/
The verdict
“adestrar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #96,371 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,371
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tornar destro
Corpus desk
Index PT-adestrar · adestrar · Portuguese
adestrar · rank #96,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,371
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH abricó
Nearest frequency peer: abricó (-11 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 “adestrar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Wahl
Wahl
3,676 corpus weight
- abolicionis…
abolicionismo
3,642 corpus weight
- abricó
abricó
3,641 corpus weight
- adestrar
adestrar
3,630 corpus weight
- antepenúlti…
antepenúltimo
3,599 corpus weight
- arguição
arguição
3,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “adestrar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adestrar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.dɨʃ.ˈtɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “adestrar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
adestrar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #96,371 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐ.dɨʃ.ˈtɾaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for adestrar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is adestrar, spelled A-D-E-S-T-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1tornar destro
- 2disciplinar
- 3ensinar
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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