deflagrar
/dɨ.flɐ.ˈɡɾaɾ/
The verdict
“deflagrar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,861 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,861
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - arder com intensidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-deflagrar · deflagrar · Portuguese
deflagrar · rank #73,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,861
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH decálogo
Nearest frequency peer: decálogo (-4 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 “deflagrar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- costado
costado
26,164 corpus weight
- decálogo
decálogo
26,144 corpus weight
- deflagrar
deflagrar
26,140 corpus weight
- depravado
depravado
26,136 corpus weight
- desaprovar
desaprovar
26,133 corpus weight
- disparador
disparador
26,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “deflagrar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deflagrar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨ.flɐ.ˈɡɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “deflagrar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
deflagrar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,861 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨ.flɐ.ˈɡɾaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for deflagrar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is deflagrar, spelled D-E-F-L-A-G-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1arder com intensidade
- 2provocar, desencadear
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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