esperassem

verb

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The verdict

“esperassem” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #79,562 among 2,493 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,562
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,493
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo esperar

Key facts for esperassem
PropertyValue
Headwordesperassem
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters10
Frequency rank#79,562
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “esperassem” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). esperassem lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

esperassem is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #79,562 among 2,493 “E” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo esperar".

esperassem doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented 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 esperassem, spelled E-S-P-E-R-A-S-S-E-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo esperar

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 "esperassem"?
"esperassem" is spelled E-S-P-E-R-A-S-S-E-M.
What does "esperassem" mean?
As a verb, "esperassem" means: terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo esperar
What language does "esperassem" come from?
"esperassem" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “esperassem”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-S-P-E-R-A-S-S-E-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list