desmotivar
/dɨʒ.mu.ti.ˈvaɾ/
The verdict
“desmotivar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,028 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,028
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tirar ou interesse, tirar a motivação
Corpus desk
Index PT-desmotivar · desmotivar · Portuguese
desmotivar · rank #51,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,028
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desordenado
Nearest frequency peer: desordenado (+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 “desmotivar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cracker
cracker
49,002 corpus weight
- degree
degree
48,990 corpus weight
- desmotivar
desmotivar
48,973 corpus weight
- desordenado
desordenado
48,971 corpus weight
- efêmero
efêmero
48,953 corpus weight
- elles
elles
48,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desmotivar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desmotivar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʒ.mu.ti.ˈvaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desmotivar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desmotivar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,028 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨʒ.mu.ti.ˈvaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for desmotivar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is desmotivar, spelled D-E-S-M-O-T-I-V-A-R.
Definition
- 1tirar ou interesse, tirar a motivação
- 2tirar os motivos
This word in other languages
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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