esfarrapado
/iʃ.fɐ.Rɐ.ˈpa.du/
The verdict
“esfarrapado” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #91,858 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #91,858
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - em farrapos
| 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) |
Where “esfarrapado” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for esfarrapado is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.fɐ.Rɐ.ˈpa.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #91,858 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
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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Using “esfarrapado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-S-F-A-R-R-A-P-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /iʃ.fɐ.Rɐ.ˈpa.du/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.