descuidar
The verdict
“descuidar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,051 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,051
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - não ter cuidado com
Corpus desk
Index PT-descuidar · descuidar · Portuguese
descuidar · rank #56,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,051
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH descente
Nearest frequency peer: descente (-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 “descuidar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- deontologia
deontologia
43,957 corpus weight
- descente
descente
43,951 corpus weight
- descuidar
descuidar
43,950 corpus weight
- despachante
despachante
43,945 corpus weight
- desprendime…
desprendimento
43,944 corpus weight
- diminuto
diminuto
43,938 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “descuidar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descuidar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “descuidar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
descuidar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,051 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for descuidar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is descuidar, spelled D-E-S-C-U-I-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1não ter cuidado com
- 2não fazer caso de; desprezar, preterir
- 3esquecer-se
- 4distrair-se
- 5não ter cuidado
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how descuidar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Descuidar o governo da casa.
Descuidar-se dos deveres.
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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