bestial
/bɨʃ.ˈtjaɫ/
The verdict
“bestial” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,402 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,402
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - próprio de besta
Corpus desk
Index PT-bestial · bestial · Portuguese
bestial · rank #55,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,402
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH burocrata
Nearest frequency peer: burocrata (+14 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 “bestial”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- arroto
arroto
44,620 corpus weight
- assombroso
assombroso
44,615 corpus weight
- bestial
bestial
44,599 corpus weight
- burocrata
burocrata
44,585 corpus weight
- catita
catita
44,574 corpus weight
- cedência
cedência
44,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bestial” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bestial |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bɨʃ.ˈtjaɫ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bestial” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bestial is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,402 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /bɨʃ.ˈtjaɫ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bestial, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is bestial, spelled B-E-S-T-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1próprio de besta
- 2brutal
- 3estúpido
- 4grosseiro
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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