desandar
/dɨ.zɐ̃.ˈdaɾ/
The verdict
“desandar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,411 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,411
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fazer andar para trás
Corpus desk
Index PT-desandar · desandar · Portuguese
desandar · rank #65,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,411
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desintoxicar
Nearest frequency peer: desintoxicar (+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 “desandar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cutelo
cutelo
34,607 corpus weight
- desandar
desandar
34,590 corpus weight
- desintoxicar
desintoxicar
34,584 corpus weight
- despedaçar
despedaçar
34,579 corpus weight
- dinar
dinar
34,572 corpus weight
- distribution
distribution
34,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desandar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desandar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨ.zɐ̃.ˈdaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desandar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desandar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,411 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨ.zɐ̃.ˈdaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for desandar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 desandar, spelled D-E-S-A-N-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer andar para trás
- 2começar a
- 3andar para trás; retroceder
- 4entrar em decadência
- 5decompor-se, alterar-se
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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