desbravar
/dɨʒ.bɾɐ.ˈvaɾ/
The verdict
“desbravar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,780 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,780
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tornar manso
Corpus desk
Index PT-desbravar · desbravar · Portuguese
desbravar · rank #62,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,780
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desbravador
Nearest frequency peer: desbravador (-1 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 “desbravar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- decretação
decretação
37,237 corpus weight
- dedada
dedada
37,236 corpus weight
- delira
delira
37,233 corpus weight
- dernier
dernier
37,227 corpus weight
- desbravador
desbravador
37,222 corpus weight
- desbravar
desbravar
37,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desbravar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desbravar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʒ.bɾɐ.ˈvaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desbravar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desbravar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,780 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨʒ.bɾɐ.ˈvaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for desbravar, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 desbravar, spelled D-E-S-B-R-A-V-A-R.
Definition
- 1tornar manso
- 2pôr um terreno em estado de ser cultivado
- 3descobrir
- 4explorar
Synonyms
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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