desatento
/dɨ.zɐ.ˈtẽ.tu/
The verdict
“desatento” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,121 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,121
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que não possui atenção
Corpus desk
Index PT-desatento · desatento · Portuguese
desatento · rank #66,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,121
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH dento
Nearest frequency peer: dento (-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 “desatento”
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 “desatento” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desatento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɨ.zɐ.ˈtẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desatento” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desatento is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,121 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dɨ.zɐ.ˈtẽ.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for desatento, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 desatento, spelled D-E-S-A-T-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1que não possui atenção
- 2que demonstra distração ou desinteresse; distraído
- 3que não presta atenção naquilo que vê, escuta ou faz por estar concentrado em outras coisas; desinteressado
- 4que demonstra falta de atenção, distração
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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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