destroçar
/dɨʃ.tɾu.ˈsaɾ/
The verdict
“destroçar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #95,634 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,634
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - partir em vários pedaços
Corpus desk
Index PT-destrocar · destroçar · Portuguese
destroçar · rank #95,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,634
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH descapotável
Nearest frequency peer: descapotável (-10 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 “destroçar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- decrescer
decrescer
4,391 corpus weight
- descapotável
descapotável
4,377 corpus weight
- destroçar
destroçar
4,367 corpus weight
- Direktor
Direktor
4,355 corpus weight
- dissensão
dissensão
4,349 corpus weight
- dândi
dândi
4,335 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “destroçar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destroçar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.tɾu.ˈsaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “destroçar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
destroçar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #95,634 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨʃ.tɾu.ˈsaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for destroçar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 destroçar, spelled D-E-S-T-R-O-Ç-A-R.
Definition
- 1partir em vários pedaços
- 2transformar num destroço
- 3provocar um desgosto de amor
- 4desordenar as fileiras de um exército
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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