esfarrapado
/iʃ.fɐ.Rɐ.ˈpa.du/
The verdict
“esfarrapado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,858 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,858
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - em farrapos
Corpus desk
Index PT-esfarrapado · esfarrapado · Portuguese
esfarrapado · rank #91,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,858
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH excecionalmen…
Nearest frequency peer: excecionalmente (+11 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 “esfarrapado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- despreocupa…
despreocupação
8,198 corpus weight
- deão
deão
8,196 corpus weight
- diletante
diletante
8,192 corpus weight
- eit
eit
8,167 corpus weight
- esfarrapado
esfarrapado
8,143 corpus weight
- excecionalm…
excecionalmente
8,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “esfarrapado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esfarrapado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /iʃ.fɐ.Rɐ.ˈpa.du/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “esfarrapado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
esfarrapado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,858 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /iʃ.fɐ.Rɐ.ˈpa.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for esfarrapado, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 esfarrapado, spelled E-S-F-A-R-R-A-P-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1em farrapos
- 2que não tem poder de convencimento, que aparenta ao ouvinte ser argumentivamente não condizente com a realidade dos motivos ou fatos e que é dado com o intuito de servir como forma de justificativa ou amenizador para tirar alguém de maus lençóis
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how esfarrapado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ele veio com uma desculpa esfarrapada que os preservativos não eram dele e meu coração fraco aceitou a desculpa mentirosa.
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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