entretido

adj

The verdict

“entretido” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,486 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,486
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,279
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que se entretém

Corpus desk

Index PT-entretido · entretido · Portuguese

entretido · rank #58,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,486
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,279
  • PHOTO-FINISH empiricamente

Nearest frequency peer: empiricamente (-5 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 “entretido”

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for entretido
PropertyValue
Headwordentretido
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Frequency rank#58,486
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “entretido” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).entretidocai 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: “empiricamente” (#58,481), “empilhadeira” (#58,480), “elitismo” (#58,477). Entre 1,279 lemas com “E”, “entretido” fica em #58,486. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

entretido is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,486 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for entretido, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is entretido, spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-I-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que se entretém
  2. 2
    divertido

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. No momento ele está mais entretido com as autoridades estaduais de São Paulo do que com as federais.

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 "entretido"?
"entretido" is spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-I-D-O.
What does "entretido" mean?
As an adjective, "entretido" means: que se entretém
What language does "entretido" come from?
"entretido" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "entretido", 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