destoar
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destoar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “destoar” em português
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
- 1deixar de possuir afinação
- 2estragar ou perder o tom; desafinar
- 3soar de maneira desagradável
- 4discordar de
- 5possuir divergência com; divergir
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how destoar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No coral a soprano destoava.
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.