desligado

Name: desligado, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“desligado” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,649. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,649
frequency rank, Portuguese: 1,193
“D” headwords: 13
tracked misspellings: 5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que se desligou

Corpus desk

Index PT-desligado · desligado · Portuguese

desligado · rank #12,649 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

FREQ-MID #12,649
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
VAR-HIGH 13 variants
BOOK-MID 1,193
PHOTO-FINISH deep

Nearest frequency peer: deep (-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.

cálcio

87,359
deep

87,355
desligado

87,352
disfarçado

87,349
diva

87,346
encaixar

87,339

What this shows “desligado” 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).

desligado vs desligar

78% similar

desligado vs destinado

78% similar

desligado vs deslocado

78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for desligado
Property	Value
Headword	desligado
Language	Portuguese
Part of speech	Adjective
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#12,649
Misspellings tracked	13
Confusable pairs	5
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “desligado”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.desligadocai aqui:

#12,649

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “deep” (#12,646), “disfarçado” (#12,652), “diva” (#12,655). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “desligado” fica em #12,649. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around desligado, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,649 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for desligado, with forms such as "ddesligado", "delsigado", and "desilgado". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "desligar", "destinado", "deslocado", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 desligado, spelled D-E-S-L-I-G-A-D-O.

Definition

1
que se desligou
2
que se desligou
3
que se desligou
4
que se desligou
5
que se desligou
6
(Uso: informal) que se preocupa mais consigo e com seus interesses do que com os demais
7
(Uso: informal) (Derivação: por extensão de sentido) que é distraído, aéreo

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

peças desligadas
frases desligadas

Synonyms

prevenido

Antonyms

ligado prevenido

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ddesligado
delsigado
desilgado
deslgiado
desliagdo
desligaddo
desligaod
desligdao
desliggado
deslligado
dessligado
dseligado
edsligado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desligado - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "desligado"

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 "desligado"?

"desligado" is spelled D-E-S-L-I-G-A-D-O.

What does "desligado" mean?

As an adjective, "desligado" means: que se desligou

What words are commonly confused with "desligado"?

"desligado" is commonly confused with "desligar", "destinado", "deslocado". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

What language does "desligado" come from?

"desligado" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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