despotismo
/dɨʃ.pu.ˈtiʒ.mu/
The verdict
“despotismo” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #42,882 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #42,882
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - forma de governo em que o poder se encontra nas mãos de apenas um governante
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despotismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.pu.ˈtiʒ.mu/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “despotismo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for despotismo is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨʃ.pu.ˈtiʒ.mu/. Corpus data places it at rank #42,882 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "forma de governo em que o poder se encontra nas mãos de apenas um governante".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for despotismo, with forms such as "ddespotismo", "depsotismo", and "desoptismo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is despotismo, spelled D-E-S-P-O-T-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1forma de governo em que o poder se encontra nas mãos de apenas um governante
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddespotismo,depsotismo,desoptismo,despoitsmo,despotimso,despotismmo,despotisom,despotissmo,despotsimo,despottismo,desppotismo,desptoismo,desspotismo,dsepotismo,edspotismo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of despotismo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “despotismo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-E-S-P-O-T-I-S-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dɨʃ.pu.ˈtiʒ.mu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.