decrépito
/dɨ.ˈkɾɛ.pi.tu/
The verdict
“decrépito” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #79,488 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,488
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - velho, antiquado
Corpus desk
Index PT-decrepito · decrépito · Portuguese
decrépito · rank #79,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,488
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH dengo
Nearest frequency peer: dengo (+6 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 “decrépito”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- concelhio
concelhio
20,566 corpus weight
- courrier
courrier
20,541 corpus weight
- croce
croce
20,533 corpus weight
- decrépito
decrépito
20,513 corpus weight
- dengo
dengo
20,507 corpus weight
- dopar
dopar
20,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “decrépito” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | decrépito |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɨ.ˈkɾɛ.pi.tu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “decrépito” em português
Rare enough to double-check
decrépito is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #79,488 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dɨ.ˈkɾɛ.pi.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "velho, antiquado".
decrépito doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 decrépito, spelled D-E-C-R-É-P-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1velho, antiquado
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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