capotar
/kɐ.pu.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“capotar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,578 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,578
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - virar ao contrário em um acidente
Corpus desk
Index PT-capotar · capotar · Portuguese
capotar · rank #56,578 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,578
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH caloria
Nearest frequency peer: caloria (-4 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 “capotar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bachelor
bachelor
43,458 corpus weight
- baobá
baobá
43,455 corpus weight
- ber
ber
43,447 corpus weight
- busão
busão
43,431 corpus weight
- caloria
caloria
43,427 corpus weight
- capotar
capotar
43,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “capotar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capotar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kɐ.pu.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “capotar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
capotar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,578 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kɐ.pu.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for capotar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 capotar, spelled C-A-P-O-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1virar ao contrário em um acidente
- 2cair deitado indo a dormir
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capotar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Capotou o carro na rodovia.
Ela estava exausta, jantou e capotou na cama.
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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