esperassem

verb

The verdict

“esperassem” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #79,562 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,562
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,279
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo esperar

Corpus desk

Index PT-esperassem · esperassem · Portuguese

esperassem · rank #79,562 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,562
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,279
  • PHOTO-FINISH eslavo

Nearest frequency peer: eslavo (-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 “esperassem”

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for esperassem
PropertyValue
Headwordesperassem
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters10
Frequency rank#79,562
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “esperassem” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).esperassemcai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “eslavo” (#79,557), “evangelizador” (#79,569), “engendrar” (#79,549). Entre 1,279 lemas com “E”, “esperassem” fica em #79,562. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

esperassem is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #79,562 among 1,279 “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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Às gentes Lusitanas, que esperassem;

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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "esperassem", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list