destoar

verb

The verdict

“destoar” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deixar de possuir afinação

Corpus desk

Index PT-destoar · destoar · Portuguese

destoar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 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.

Key facts for destoar
PropertyValue
Headworddestoar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “destoar” em português

destoarestá além das 100.000 formas mais frequentes do português, na cauda de léxico especializado ou pouco usado.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

destoar is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for destoar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is destoar, spelled D-E-S-T-O-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    deixar de possuir afinação
  2. 2
    estragar ou perder o tom; desafinar
  3. 3
    soar de maneira desagradável
  4. 4
    discordar de
  5. 5
    possuir divergência com; divergir

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. No coral a soprano destoava.
  2. O barulho do tiro continua a destoar em seus ouvidos.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "destoar"?
"destoar" is spelled D-E-S-T-O-A-R.
What does "destoar" mean?
As a verb, "destoar" means: deixar de possuir afinação
What language does "destoar" come from?
"destoar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list