cortejar
/kuɾ.tɨ.ˈʒaɾ/
The verdict
“cortejar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,435 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,435
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fazer corte a alguém, galantear, lisonjear
Corpus desk
Index PT-cortejar · cortejar · Portuguese
cortejar · rank #63,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,435
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH corça
Nearest frequency peer: corça (+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 “cortejar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- conjurar
conjurar
36,574 corpus weight
- cortejar
cortejar
36,566 corpus weight
- corça
corça
36,565 corpus weight
- creatina
creatina
36,559 corpus weight
- cronometrag…
cronometragem
36,555 corpus weight
- cubismo
cubismo
36,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cortejar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cortejar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kuɾ.tɨ.ˈʒaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cortejar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cortejar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,435 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kuɾ.tɨ.ˈʒaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cortejar, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cortejar, spelled C-O-R-T-E-J-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer corte a alguém, galantear, lisonjear
- 2deferir tratamento cortês a (alguém), tratar educadamente
- 3saudar, cumprimentar
- 4bajular, mimar com o objetivo de conseguir benefícios
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cortejar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Ficou pois decidido que se deixaria o campo livre ao mancebo para cortejar a donzela(...)"
"Não era o mesmo homem que estragava o chapéu em cortejar a vizinhança (...)"
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).