desflorestamento

noun

The verdict

“desflorestamento” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,651 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,651
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou processo de destruição de florestas, geralmente pela derrubada de árvores ou pela queimada

Corpus desk

Index PT-desflorestamento · desflorestamento · Portuguese

desflorestamento · rank #74,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #74,651
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH desembaraço

Nearest frequency peer: desembaraço (-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 “desflorestamento”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desflorestamento” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for desflorestamento
PropertyValue
Headworddesflorestamento
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Frequency rank#74,651
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “desflorestamento” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.desflorestamentocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “desembaraço” (#74,649), “desovar” (#74,654), “debochar” (#74,633). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “desflorestamento” fica em #74,651. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

desflorestamento is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,651 among 1,193 “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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how desflorestamento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. «O desflorestamento da Amazônia preocupa ambientalistas e cientistas do clima.»

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
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "desflorestamento", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 16 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list