desafio
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,640
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
desafio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ação de desafiar; proposta que envolve fazer algo difícil, ou ousado, podendo ser em forma de disputa entre duas ou mais pessoas, e podendo haver recompensa material ou imaterial para o vencedor, e... Pronounced /dɨ.zɐ.ˈfi.u/. It ranks #1,640 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with desvio and desmaio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desafio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨ.zɐ.ˈfi.u/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for desafio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨ.zɐ.ˈfi.u/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,640 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for desafio, with forms such as "ddesafio", "deasfio", and "desaffio". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "desvio", "desmaio", "desânimo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is desafio, spelled D-E-S-A-F-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ação de desafiar; proposta que envolve fazer algo difícil, ou ousado, podendo ser em forma de disputa entre duas ou mais pessoas, e podendo haver recompensa material ou imaterial para o vencedor, e punição para o perdedor
- 2provocação
- 3despique entre dois cantadores, que improvisando e cantando respondem um ao outro
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddesafio,deasfio,desaffio,desafoi,desaifo,desfaio,dessafio,dseafio,edsafio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for desafio
Misspelling Variants of "desafio"
Frequency rank: #1,640 in Portuguese
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