cuspido

adj

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The verdict

“cuspido” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,863 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,863
frequency rank, Portuguese
3,948
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - cuspido, que é cuspido, que é expulsado da boca, que tem cuspo

Key facts for cuspido
PropertyValue
Headwordcuspido
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#60,863
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cuspido” 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). cuspido lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cuspido is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,863 among 3,948 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for cuspido in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cuspido, spelled C-U-S-P-I-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    cuspido, que é cuspido, que é expulsado da boca, que tem cuspo
  2. 2
    cuspido, que é expulsado, que é difamado
  3. 3
    muito semelhante a, igual, cagado e cuspido

Synonyms

cagadochuspido

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cuspido"?
"cuspido" is spelled C-U-S-P-I-D-O.
What does "cuspido" mean?
As an adjective, "cuspido" means: cuspido, que é cuspido, que é expulsado da boca, que tem cuspo
What language does "cuspido" come from?
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Using “cuspido”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-U-S-P-I-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

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list