descuidar
The verdict
“descuidar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,051 among 2,399 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,051
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,399
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - não ter cuidado com
| 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) |
Where “descuidar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
descuidar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,051 among 2,399 “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
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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Using “descuidar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-E-S-C-U-I-D-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.