dialecto
/ʤi.a.ˈlɛ.tu/.
The verdict
“dialecto” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #61,499 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #61,499
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mistura de línguas em regiões anteriormente colonizadas (Ex.: língua local + língua de redescobridores).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dialecto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʤi.a.ˈlɛ.tu/. |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dialecto” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for dialecto is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʤi.a.ˈlɛ.tu/.. Corpus data places it at rank #61,499 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dialecto, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is dialecto, spelled D-I-A-L-E-C-T-O.
Definition
- 1Mistura de línguas em regiões anteriormente colonizadas (Ex.: língua local + língua de redescobridores).
- 2Variação regional de uma língua.
This word in other languages
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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Using “dialecto”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-I-A-L-E-C-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ʤi.a.ˈlɛ.tu/. (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.