deserve
/dɪˈzəːv/
The verdict
“deserve” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,624 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,624
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - merecer
Corpus desk
Index PT-deserve · deserve · Portuguese
deserve · rank #84,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,624
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desapropriado
Nearest frequency peer: desapropriado (-4 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 “deserve”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- crepuscular
crepuscular
15,405 corpus weight
- deia
deia
15,389 corpus weight
- desapropria…
desapropriado
15,381 corpus weight
- deserve
deserve
15,377 corpus weight
- emparelhar
emparelhar
15,348 corpus weight
- encardido
encardido
15,346 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “deserve” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deserve |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪˈzəːv/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “deserve” em português
Rare enough to double-check
deserve is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,624 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɪˈzəːv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "merecer".
deserve doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is deserve, spelled D-E-S-E-R-V-E.
Definition
- 1merecer
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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