desejo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,189
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
desejo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: aquilo que se deseja Pronounced /dɨ.ˈzaj.ʒu/. It ranks #1,189 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with desvio and desuso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desejo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨ.ˈzaj.ʒu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for desejo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨ.ˈzaj.ʒu/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,189 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for desejo, with forms such as "ddesejo", "deesjo", and "desejjo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "desvio", "desuso", "destro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is desejo, spelled D-E-S-E-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aquilo que se deseja
- 2apetite
- 3cobiça
- 4anseio
- 5propósito
- 6intuito
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddesejo,deesjo,desejjo,deseoj,desjeo,dessejo,dseejo,edsejo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for desejo
Misspelling Variants of "desejo"
Frequency rank: #1,189 in Portuguese
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