dento
/ˈden.to/
The verdict
“dento” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,118 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,118
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dente
Corpus desk
Index PT-dento · dento · Portuguese
dento · rank #66,118 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,118
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH deglutição
Nearest frequency peer: deglutição (-3 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 “dento”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- definhar
definhar
33,889 corpus weight
- deglutição
deglutição
33,886 corpus weight
- dento
dento
33,883 corpus weight
- desatento
desatento
33,880 corpus weight
- deteção
deteção
33,872 corpus weight
- disforme
disforme
33,864 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “dento” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈden.to/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “dento” em português
Rare enough to double-check
dento is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,118 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈden.to/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dente".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dento, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is dento, spelled D-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1dente
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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