destrancar

verb

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The verdict

“destrancar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,110 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,110
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tirar a tranca a

Corpus desk

Index PT-destrancar · destrancar · Portuguese

destrancar · rank #64,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,110
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH desmoralizado

Nearest frequency peer: desmoralizado (-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 “destrancar”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “destrancar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for destrancar
PropertyValue
Headworddestrancar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters10
Frequency rank#64,110
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “destrancar” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.destrancarcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “desmoralizado” (#64,108), “demonizar” (#64,096), “embraiagem” (#64,140). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “destrancar” fica em #64,110. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

destrancar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,110 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for destrancar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is destrancar, spelled D-E-S-T-R-A-N-C-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    tirar a tranca a
  2. 2
    abrir (o que estava trancado)

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Destranque a porta de casa.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "destrancar"?
"destrancar" is spelled D-E-S-T-R-A-N-C-A-R.
What does "destrancar" mean?
As a verb, "destrancar" means: tirar a tranca a
What language does "destrancar" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "destrancar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

embraiagem#64,140extensível#64,168frutificar#64,193bracarense#64,019

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list