docemente

adv

The verdict

“docemente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,507 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,507
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de um modo doce

Corpus desk

Index PT-docemente · docemente · Portuguese

docemente · rank #61,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,507
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH diurético

Nearest frequency peer: diurético (-1 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 “docemente”

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for docemente
PropertyValue
Headworddocemente
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdverb
Letters9
Frequency rank#61,507
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “docemente” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).docementecai 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: “diurético” (#61,506), “dur” (#61,511), “dialecto” (#61,499). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “docemente” fica em #61,507. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

docemente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,507 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "de um modo doce".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for docemente, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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. The correct Portuguese form is docemente, spelled D-O-C-E-M-E-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    de um modo doce

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. «O vento soprava docemente entre as folhas das árvores.»

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 "docemente"?
"docemente" is spelled D-O-C-E-M-E-N-T-E.
What does "docemente" mean?
As an adverb, "docemente" means: de um modo doce
What language does "docemente" come from?
"docemente" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list