descer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,630
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
descer is aPortugueseverb. It means: ir ou passar de um lugar mais alto para um lugar mais baixo Pronounced /dɨʃ.ˈseɾ/. It ranks #4,630 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with desde and deste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descer |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.ˈseɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for descer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨʃ.ˈseɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,630 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for descer, with forms such as "ddescer", "decser", and "desccer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "desde", "deste", "desse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is descer, spelled D-E-S-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ir ou passar de um lugar mais alto para um lugar mais baixo
- 2passar do mais alto para o mais baixo em qualquer escala ou série
- 3levar de um lugar mais alto a um mais baixo
- 4não seguir padrões morais, intelectuais ou sociais
- 5dirigir-se à linha do horizonte (astro)
- 6o ato de um orixá baixar num médium
- 7passar por meio da deglutição ao trato digestivo
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddescer,decser,desccer,descerr,descre,desecr,desscer,dsecer,edscer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for descer
Misspelling Variants of "descer"
Frequency rank: #4,630 in Portuguese
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