asceta
/aʃ.ˈsɛ.tɐ/
The verdict
“asceta” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,433 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,433
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pessoa que se entrega a práticas espirituais, levando vida contemplativa com mortificação dos sentidos
Corpus desk
Index PT-asceta · asceta · Portuguese
asceta · rank #98,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,433
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ascetismo
Nearest frequency peer: ascetismo (+1 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 “asceta”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- amontoar
amontoar
1,608 corpus weight
- asceta
asceta
1,568 corpus weight
- ascetismo
ascetismo
1,567 corpus weight
- audit
audit
1,556 corpus weight
- bananinha
bananinha
1,540 corpus weight
- blew
blew
1,514 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “asceta” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asceta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aʃ.ˈsɛ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “asceta” em português
Rare enough to double-check
asceta is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,433 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /aʃ.ˈsɛ.tɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for asceta in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 asceta, spelled A-S-C-E-T-A.
Definition
- 1pessoa que se entrega a práticas espirituais, levando vida contemplativa com mortificação dos sentidos
- 2aquele que vive uma vida ascética, austera
This word in other languages
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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