desconcentrar
/dɨʃ.kõ.sẽ.ˈtɾaɾ/
The verdict
“desconcentrar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,494 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,494
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - distrair
Corpus desk
Index PT-desconcentrar · desconcentrar · Portuguese
desconcentrar · rank #85,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,494
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desembocar
Nearest frequency peer: desembocar (+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 “desconcentrar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desarmonia
desarmonia
14,510 corpus weight
- desarrumar
desarrumar
14,509 corpus weight
- desconcentr…
desconcentrar
14,507 corpus weight
- desembocar
desembocar
14,506 corpus weight
- desfalecer
desfalecer
14,502 corpus weight
- desfaçatez
desfaçatez
14,501 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desconcentrar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desconcentrar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.kõ.sẽ.ˈtɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #85,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desconcentrar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desconcentrar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,494 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨʃ.kõ.sẽ.ˈtɾaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
desconcentrar has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 desconcentrar, spelled D-E-S-C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1distrair
- 2perder a concentração
- 3mudar a atenção ou a direção de
- 4espalhar; separar ou dispersar o que estava unido ou concentrado
- 5distanciar ou remover do centro
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how desconcentrar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Desconcentrou o aluno.
Desconcentrou de seu trabalho.
Synonyms
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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