desgostar
/dɨʒ.ɡuʃ.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“desgostar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,959 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,959
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deixar de gostar, deixar de sentir simpatia
Corpus desk
Index PT-desgostar · desgostar · Portuguese
desgostar · rank #89,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,959
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desmarcado
Nearest frequency peer: desmarcado (+3 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 “desgostar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desacompanh…
desacompanhado
10,048 corpus weight
- desgostar
desgostar
10,042 corpus weight
- desmarcado
desmarcado
10,039 corpus weight
- docilidade
docilidade
10,024 corpus weight
- ducal
ducal
10,018 corpus weight
- dístico
dístico
10,016 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desgostar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desgostar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʒ.ɡuʃ.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desgostar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desgostar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,959 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨʒ.ɡuʃ.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for desgostar in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is desgostar, spelled D-E-S-G-O-S-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1deixar de gostar, deixar de sentir simpatia
- 2provocar desgosto a, descontentar
- 3causar intenso desprazer; atormentar, arreliar, mortificar
- 4desagradar-se
- 5perder a alegria ou o ânimo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how desgostar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Desgostou-se da vida.
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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