distinto
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,116
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
distinto is anPortugueseadj. It means: que se distingue dos outros, que se destaca ou não se confunde com os demais Pronounced /d͡ʒisˈt͡ʃĩ.tu/. Often confused with distrito and destino.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distinto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /d͡ʒisˈt͡ʃĩ.tu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for distinto is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /d͡ʒisˈt͡ʃĩ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #14,116 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for distinto, with forms such as "ddistinto", "disitnto", and "disstinto". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "distrito", "destino", "distante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is distinto, spelled D-I-S-T-I-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que se distingue dos outros, que se destaca ou não se confunde com os demais
- 2aquilo que, apesar de compor algo, tem existência separada
- 3que tem finalidade(s) diferente(s) da principal; que tem fins múltiplos
- 4que é percebido com clareza
- 5de finos modos; de boa educação; de trato refinado
- 6diz-se daquele possui dotes, valores morais, faculdades, etc., destacados dos demais
- 7diz-se de pessoa de classe social elevada
- 8diz-se de estudante muito acima da média; que brilha nos estudos
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddistinto,disitnto,disstinto,distinnto,distinot,distintto,distitno,distnito,disttinto,ditsinto,dsitinto,idstinto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for distinto
Misspelling Variants of "distinto"
Frequency rank: #14,116 in Portuguese
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