despentear
/dɨʃ.pẽ.ˈtjaɾ/
The verdict
“despentear” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deixar o cabelo em pé, desgrenhar
Corpus desk
Index PT-despentear · despentear · Portuguese
despentear · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despentear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.pẽ.ˈtjaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “despentear” em português
Rare enough to double-check
despentear is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨʃ.pẽ.ˈtjaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "deixar o cabelo em pé, desgrenhar".
No misspelling variants are generated for despentear in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is despentear, spelled D-E-S-P-E-N-T-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1deixar o cabelo em pé, desgrenhar
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.