esperassem
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
- engendrar
engendrar
20,452 corpus weight
- eslavo
eslavo
20,444 corpus weight
- esperassem
esperassem
20,439 corpus weight
- evangelizad…
evangelizador
20,432 corpus weight
- ficada
ficada
20,421 corpus weight
- flawless
flawless
20,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “esperassem” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esperassem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “esperassem” em português
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
- 1terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo esperar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how esperassem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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