desgaste
/dɨʒ.ˈɡaʃ.tɨ/
The verdict
“desgaste” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,334. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,334
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de desgastar
Corpus desk
Index PT-desgaste · desgaste · Portuguese
desgaste · rank #14,334 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,334
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH demarcação
Nearest frequency peer: demarcação (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “desgaste”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- compressão
compressão
85,682 corpus weight
- consistência
consistência
85,678 corpus weight
- demarcação
demarcação
85,669 corpus weight
- desgaste
desgaste
85,667 corpus weight
- designar
designar
85,665 corpus weight
- enciclopédia
enciclopédia
85,647 corpus weight
What this shows “desgaste” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desgaste |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨʒ.ˈɡaʃ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “desgaste”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around desgaste (IPA /dɨʒ.ˈɡaʃ.tɨ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,334 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ato ou efeito de desgastar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for desgaste, with forms such as "ddesgaste", "degsaste", and "desagste". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "desgosto", "desastre", "descarte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is desgaste, spelled D-E-S-G-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de desgastar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how desgaste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Foi para evitar novo fracasso e o profundo desgaste experimentado este ano, para não citar as muitas explicações que tiveram de dar aos investidores, que Dennis e Haug decidiram rescindir o contrato de Alonso, o grande insatisfeito dessa história.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddesgaste
- degsaste
- desagste
- desgaset
- desgasste
- desgastte
- desgatse
- desggaste
- desgsate
- dessgaste
- dsegaste
- edsgaste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desgaste - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "desgaste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).