desentupir
/dɨ.zẽ.tu.ˈpiɾ/
The verdict
“desentupir” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,738 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,738
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ficar ou fazer ficar com a passagem (de água, líquidos ou ar) desobstruída
Corpus desk
Index PT-desentupir · desentupir · Portuguese
desentupir · rank #64,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,738
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH deformar
Nearest frequency peer: deformar (-6 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 “desentupir”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cêntimo
cêntimo
35,278 corpus weight
- cópula
cópula
35,277 corpus weight
- deca
deca
35,272 corpus weight
- deformar
deformar
35,269 corpus weight
- desentupir
desentupir
35,263 corpus weight
- dissecar
dissecar
35,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desentupir” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desentupir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨ.zẽ.tu.ˈpiɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desentupir” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desentupir is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,738 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨ.zẽ.tu.ˈpiɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
desentupir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is desentupir, spelled D-E-S-E-N-T-U-P-I-R.
Definition
- 1ficar ou fazer ficar com a passagem (de água, líquidos ou ar) desobstruída
- 2esvaziar(-se) demais ou além do limite
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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