dissecar
/di.sɨ.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“dissecar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,745 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,745
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cortar, dividir, separar com instrumentos cirúrgicos os órgãos ou os tecidos de um cadáver, animal morto ou vegetal
Corpus desk
Index PT-dissecar · dissecar · Portuguese
dissecar · rank #64,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,745
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desentupir
Nearest frequency peer: desentupir (-7 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 “dissecar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- deca
deca
35,272 corpus weight
- deformar
deformar
35,269 corpus weight
- desentupir
desentupir
35,263 corpus weight
- dissecar
dissecar
35,256 corpus weight
- emancipar
emancipar
35,238 corpus weight
- Emanuele
Emanuele
35,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “dissecar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissecar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /di.sɨ.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “dissecar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
dissecar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,745 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /di.sɨ.ˈkaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dissecar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 dissecar, spelled D-I-S-S-E-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1cortar, dividir, separar com instrumentos cirúrgicos os órgãos ou os tecidos de um cadáver, animal morto ou vegetal
- 2analisar minuciosamente
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dissecar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
dissecar uma obra literária.
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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