astenia
The verdict
“astenia” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diminuição das forças físicas ou orgânicas; debilidade, fraqueza
Corpus desk
Index PT-astenia · astenia · Portuguese
astenia · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | astenia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “astenia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
astenia is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for astenia in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is astenia, spelled A-S-T-E-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1diminuição das forças físicas ou orgânicas; debilidade, fraqueza
- 2diminuição da resistência do sistema nervoso; debilitação psíquica; neurastenia, psicastenia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how astenia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Padre Rolim veio a falecer às 20 horas do dia 16 de setembro de 1899, vitimado por uma astenia cardíaca senil.
Antonyms
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.