descalabro
/dɨʃ.kɐ.ˈla.bɾu/
The verdict
“descalabro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #82,797 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,797
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - desgraça, ruína
Corpus desk
Index PT-descalabro · descalabro · Portuguese
descalabro · rank #82,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,797
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desfigurar
Nearest frequency peer: desfigurar (+5 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 “descalabro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- czarina
czarina
17,221 corpus weight
- descalabro
descalabro
17,204 corpus weight
- desfigurar
desfigurar
17,199 corpus weight
- deslanchar
deslanchar
17,198 corpus weight
- desnaturado
desnaturado
17,196 corpus weight
- desordenados
desordenados
17,195 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “descalabro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descalabro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.kɐ.ˈla.bɾu/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “descalabro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
descalabro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #82,797 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɨʃ.kɐ.ˈla.bɾu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "desgraça, ruína".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for descalabro, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct Portuguese form is descalabro, spelled D-E-S-C-A-L-A-B-R-O.
Definition
- 1desgraça, ruína
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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