desdentado
/dɨʒ.dẽ.ˈta.du/
The verdict
“desdentado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,793 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,793
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sem dentes
Corpus desk
Index PT-desdentado · desdentado · Portuguese
desdentado · rank #91,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,793
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desbotar
Nearest frequency peer: desbotar (-2 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 “desdentado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desbotar
desbotar
8,210 corpus weight
- desdentado
desdentado
8,208 corpus weight
- despojar
despojar
8,200 corpus weight
- despreocupa…
despreocupação
8,198 corpus weight
- deão
deão
8,196 corpus weight
- diletante
diletante
8,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desdentado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desdentado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɨʒ.dẽ.ˈta.du/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desdentado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desdentado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,793 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dɨʒ.dẽ.ˈta.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for desdentado, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 desdentado, spelled D-E-S-D-E-N-T-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1sem dentes
- 2ordem dos mamíferos que não possui dentição ou não a possui de forma perfeita
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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