desventura
/dɨʒ.vẽ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“desventura” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,871 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,871
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - falta de ventura; desdita, infelicidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-desventura · desventura · Portuguese
desventura · rank #77,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,871
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desodorizante
Nearest frequency peer: desodorizante (-6 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 “desventura”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cumpridor
cumpridor
22,164 corpus weight
- curtume
curtume
22,162 corpus weight
- denotar
denotar
22,147 corpus weight
- desodorizan…
desodorizante
22,136 corpus weight
- desventura
desventura
22,130 corpus weight
- dogmatismo
dogmatismo
22,117 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desventura” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desventura |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨʒ.vẽ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desventura” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desventura is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,871 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɨʒ.vẽ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for desventura in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is desventura, spelled D-E-S-V-E-N-T-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1falta de ventura; desdita, infelicidade
- 2sorte má; azar, desgraça
Antonyms
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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