desbotar
/dɨʒ.bu.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“desbotar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,791 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,791
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - perder o brilho ou a vividez da cor
Corpus desk
Index PT-desbotar · desbotar · Portuguese
desbotar · rank #91,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,791
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desdentado
Nearest frequency peer: desdentado (+2 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 “desbotar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desbotar
desbotar
8,210 corpus weight
- desdentado
desdentado
8,208 corpus weight
- despojar
despojar
8,200 corpus weight
- despreocupa…
despreocupação
8,198 corpus weight
- deão
deão
8,196 corpus weight
- diletante
diletante
8,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desbotar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desbotar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʒ.bu.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desbotar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desbotar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,791 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨʒ.bu.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for desbotar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is desbotar, spelled D-E-S-B-O-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1perder o brilho ou a vividez da cor
- 2perder o vigor, o frescor
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how desbotar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Minha calça jeans desbotou após algumas lavadas."
"As rosas desbotaram com o frio."
This word in other languages
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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