desflorestamento

noun

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The verdict

“desflorestamento” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,651 among 2,399 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,651
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,399
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato ou processo de destruição de florestas, geralmente pela derrubada de árvores ou pela queimada

Key facts for desflorestamento
PropertyValue
Headworddesflorestamento
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Frequency rank#74,651
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “desflorestamento” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). desflorestamento lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

desflorestamento is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,651 among 2,399 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

desflorestamento has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is desflorestamento, spelled D-E-S-F-L-O-R-E-S-T-A-M-E-N-T-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    ato ou processo de destruição de florestas, geralmente pela derrubada de árvores ou pela queimada
  2. 2
    redução ou eliminação de cobertura vegetal em determinada região

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "desflorestamento"?
"desflorestamento" is spelled D-E-S-F-L-O-R-E-S-T-A-M-E-N-T-O.
What does "desflorestamento" mean?
As a noun, "desflorestamento" means: ato ou processo de destruição de florestas, geralmente pela derrubada de árvores ou pela queimada
What language does "desflorestamento" come from?
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Using “desflorestamento”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-E-S-F-L-O-R-E-S-T-A-M-E-N-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list