dialecto
/ʤi.a.ˈlɛ.tu/.
The verdict
“dialecto” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,499 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,499
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mistura de línguas em regiões anteriormente colonizadas (Ex.: língua local + língua de redescobridores).
Corpus desk
Index PT-dialecto · dialecto · Portuguese
dialecto · rank #61,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,499
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH Deutsch
Nearest frequency peer: Deutsch (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “dialecto”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- destilar
destilar
38,507 corpus weight
- detonador
detonador
38,506 corpus weight
- Deutsch
Deutsch
38,505 corpus weight
- dialecto
dialecto
38,502 corpus weight
- diurético
diurético
38,495 corpus weight
- docemente
docemente
38,494 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “dialecto” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “dialecto” em português
Rare enough to double-check
dialecto is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,499 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʤi.a.ˈlɛ.tu/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).