distopia

noun

The verdict

“distopia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,894 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,894
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - posição ou situação anormal de um órgão

Corpus desk

Index PT-distopia · distopia · Portuguese

distopia · rank #60,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,894
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH divagar

Nearest frequency peer: divagar (+2 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 “distopia”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “distopia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for distopia
PropertyValue
Headworddistopia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#60,894
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “distopia” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.distopiacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “divagar” (#60,896), “diacho” (#60,887), “desaforo” (#60,879). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “distopia” fica em #60,894. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

distopia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,894 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for distopia, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is distopia, spelled D-I-S-T-O-P-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    posição ou situação anormal de um órgão
  2. 2
    uma projeção de futuro no qual a sociedade como conhecemos ruiu e a vida humana se torna muito difícil; a antítese da utopia

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how distopia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Na saga do caçador de androides Dick Deckard, estão o niilismo, a dúvida, o caos, o néon, e, sobretudo, a distopia que reinariam na Los Angeles de 2019.

Synonyms

antiutopia

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "distopia"?
"distopia" is spelled D-I-S-T-O-P-I-A.
What does "distopia" mean?
As a noun, "distopia" means: posição ou situação anormal de um órgão
What language does "distopia" come from?
"distopia" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "distopia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list