desabilitar
The verdict
“desabilitar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,440 among 2,399 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,440
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,399
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - fazer ficar inábil
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desabilitar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “desabilitar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
desabilitar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,440 among 2,399 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for desabilitar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 desabilitar, spelled D-E-S-A-B-I-L-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer ficar inábil
- 2deixar de ter habilidade
- 3não deixar que a ação aconteça; desativar
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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Using “desabilitar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-E-S-A-B-I-L-I-T-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.