devastado

adj

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The verdict

“devastado” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #24,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,608
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - destruído

Corpus desk

Index PT-devastado · devastado · Portuguese

devastado · rank #24,608 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,608
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH desidratação

Nearest frequency peer: desidratação (-3 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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “devastado”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “devastado” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

devastado vs devastar
78% similar
devastado vs devastador
90% similar
devastado vs demasiado
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for devastado
PropertyValue
Headworddevastado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Frequency rank#24,608
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “devastado”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).devastadocai aqui:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “desidratação” (#24,605), “discografia” (#24,611), “ditar” (#24,613). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “devastado” fica em #24,608. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around devastado, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,608 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for devastado, with forms such as "ddevastado", "deavstado", and "devasatdo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "devastar", "devastador", "demasiado", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is devastado, spelled D-E-V-A-S-T-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    destruído
  2. 2
    assolado por catástrofe
  3. 3
    triste, inconsolável
  4. 4
    desmatado

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. o castelo estava devastado
  2. devastado por um furacão

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddevastado
  • deavstado
  • devasatdo
  • devasstado
  • devastaddo
  • devastaod
  • devastdao
  • devasttado
  • devatsado
  • devsatado
  • devvastado
  • dveastado
  • edvastado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devastado - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddevastado1deavstado2devasatdo2devasstado1devastaddo1devastaod2devastdao2devasttado1
Edit distance from "devastado"

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 "devastado"?
"devastado" is spelled D-E-V-A-S-T-A-D-O.
What does "devastado" mean?
As an adjective, "devastado" means: destruído
What words are commonly confused with "devastado"?
"devastado" is commonly confused with "devastar", "devastador", "demasiado". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "devastado" come from?
"devastado" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

desconfia#24,601esplanada#24,636coincidir#24,567framboesa#24,654

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

humanismo13 variantsvivenciar13 variantsreprovação13 variantsconfraria13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list