diletante
/di.lɨ.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/
The verdict
“diletante” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,809 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,809
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aficionado por música
Corpus desk
Index PT-diletante · diletante · Portuguese
diletante · rank #91,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,809
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH deão
Nearest frequency peer: deão (-4 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 “diletante”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desbotar
desbotar
8,210 corpus weight
- desdentado
desdentado
8,208 corpus weight
- despojar
despojar
8,200 corpus weight
- despreocupa…
despreocupação
8,198 corpus weight
- deão
deão
8,196 corpus weight
- diletante
diletante
8,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “diletante” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diletante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /di.lɨ.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “diletante” em português
Rare enough to double-check
diletante is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,809 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /di.lɨ.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
diletante has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is diletante, spelled D-I-L-E-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1aficionado por música
- 2amante das artes e literatura
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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