describe
/dɪˈskɹaɪb/, /dəˈskɹaɪb/
The verdict
“describe” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - descrever
Corpus desk
Index PT-describe · describe · Portuguese
describe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | describe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪˈskɹaɪb/, /dəˈskɹaɪb/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “describe” em português
Rare enough to double-check
describe is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /dɪˈskɹaɪb/, /dəˈskɹaɪb/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "descrever".
No misspelling variants are generated for describe in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is describe, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-B-E.
Definition
- 1descrever
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.