discente
/diʃ.ˈsẽ.tɨ/
The verdict
“discente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,101 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,101
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo a aluno
Corpus desk
Index PT-discente · discente · Portuguese
discente · rank #52,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,101
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH disenteria
Nearest frequency peer: disenteria (+1 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 “discente”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desmarcar
desmarcar
47,910 corpus weight
- destituir
destituir
47,906 corpus weight
- discente
discente
47,900 corpus weight
- disenteria
disenteria
47,899 corpus weight
- dissera
dissera
47,894 corpus weight
- divine
divine
47,892 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “discente” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /diʃ.ˈsẽ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “discente” em português
Rare enough to double-check
discente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,101 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /diʃ.ˈsẽ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "relativo a aluno".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for discente, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is discente, spelled D-I-S-C-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1relativo a aluno
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how discente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depois de destinar 45% de suas vagas para negros e índios oriundos da rede pública de ensino fundamental, a Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) agora pretende acabar definitivamente com os exames vestibulares, como forma de seleção de seu corpo discente.
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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