dispendioso
/ʤiʃ.pẽ.ʤi.ˈo.zu/
The verdict
“dispendioso” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,569 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,569
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que demanda dispêndio; caro, custoso, oneroso
Corpus desk
Index PT-dispendioso · dispendioso · Portuguese
dispendioso · rank #51,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,569
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desunião
Nearest frequency peer: desunião (-5 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 “dispendioso”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- descontração
descontração
48,443 corpus weight
- destra
destra
48,438 corpus weight
- desunião
desunião
48,437 corpus weight
- dispendioso
dispendioso
48,432 corpus weight
- duplicata
duplicata
48,423 corpus weight
- eletrocardi…
eletrocardiograma
48,417 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “dispendioso” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispendioso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ʤiʃ.pẽ.ʤi.ˈo.zu/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “dispendioso” em português
Rare enough to double-check
dispendioso is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,569 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ʤiʃ.pẽ.ʤi.ˈo.zu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dispendioso, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is dispendioso, spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-D-I-O-S-O.
Definition
- 1que demanda dispêndio; caro, custoso, oneroso
- 2trabalhoso
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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