divagar
/di.vɐ.ˈɡaɾ/
The verdict
“divagar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,896 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,896
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - voar nos pensamentos, devanear, sonhar
Corpus desk
Index PT-divagar · divagar · Portuguese
divagar · rank #60,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,896
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH distopia
Nearest frequency peer: distopia (-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 “divagar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- desaforo
desaforo
39,122 corpus weight
- diacho
diacho
39,114 corpus weight
- distopia
distopia
39,107 corpus weight
- divagar
divagar
39,105 corpus weight
- effective
effective
39,091 corpus weight
- embriagar
embriagar
39,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “divagar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divagar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /di.vɐ.ˈɡaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “divagar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
divagar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,896 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /di.vɐ.ˈɡaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for divagar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is divagar, spelled D-I-V-A-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1voar nos pensamentos, devanear, sonhar
- 2caminhar sem rumo, vagar
- 3desviar do assunto principal, fazer digressões
- 4dizer coisas sem sentido, desvairar
- 5fugir do assunto, desconversar
Synonyms
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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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