deão
/ˈdjɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“deão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,805 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,805
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dignitário eclesiástico que preside ao cabido
Corpus desk
Index PT-deao · deão · Portuguese
deão · rank #91,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,805
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH despreocupação
Nearest frequency peer: despreocupação (-2 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 “deão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desbotar
desbotar
8,210 corpus weight
- desdentado
desdentado
8,208 corpus weight
- despojar
despojar
8,200 corpus weight
- despreocupa…
despreocupação
8,198 corpus weight
- deão
deão
8,196 corpus weight
- diletante
diletante
8,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “deão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdjɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “deão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
deão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,805 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdjɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dignitário eclesiástico que preside ao cabido".
deão doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct Portuguese form is deão, spelled D-E-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1dignitário eclesiástico que preside ao cabido
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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