congestionado

adj

The verdict

“congestionado” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #56,018 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.

#56,018
frequency rank, Portuguese
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: parado ou com velocidade de fluxo reduzida (em se falando do trânsito)

Key facts for congestionado
PropertyValue
Headwordcongestionado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters13
Frequency rank#56,018
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “congestionado” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). congestionado lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for congestionado is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #56,018 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for congestionado in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is congestionado, spelled C-O-N-G-E-S-T-I-O-N-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    parado ou com velocidade de fluxo reduzida (em se falando do trânsito)
  2. 2
    com fluxo anormal de sangue
  3. 3
    rubro, afogueado
  4. 4
    com filetes vermelhos no olho

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #56,018 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "congestionado"?
"congestionado" is spelled C-O-N-G-E-S-T-I-O-N-A-D-O.
What does "congestionado" mean?
As an adjective, "congestionado" means: parado ou com velocidade de fluxo reduzida (em se falando do trânsito)
What language does "congestionado" come from?
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Using “congestionado”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-N-G-E-S-T-I-O-N-A-D-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Nearby Portuguese words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.