esparadrapo
/eʃ.pa.ɾa.'dɾa.pu/
The verdict
“esparadrapo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,537 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,537
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pano ou papel untado com unguento ou emplastro, para tratamento de feridas e chagas
Corpus desk
Index PT-esparadrapo · esparadrapo · Portuguese
esparadrapo · rank #61,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,537
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esbranquiçado
Nearest frequency peer: esbranquiçado (-7 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 “esparadrapo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- dur
dur
38,490 corpus weight
- endireita
endireita
38,478 corpus weight
- engrandecer
engrandecer
38,475 corpus weight
- esbranquiça…
esbranquiçado
38,471 corpus weight
- esparadrapo
esparadrapo
38,464 corpus weight
- expedir
expedir
38,452 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “esparadrapo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esparadrapo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /eʃ.pa.ɾa.'dɾa.pu/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “esparadrapo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
esparadrapo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,537 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /eʃ.pa.ɾa.'dɾa.pu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
esparadrapo has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 esparadrapo, spelled E-S-P-A-R-A-D-R-A-P-O.
Definition
- 1pano ou papel untado com unguento ou emplastro, para tratamento de feridas e chagas
- 2fita adesiva, ou tira de pano com uma substância adesiva numa das suas faces, que serve para fixar no local do ferimento; penso ou curativo; pode conter antissépticos ou outras substâncias ativas, passando a ser, ao mesmo tempo, fita adesiva mais penso ou curativo
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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