esperto
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,905
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
esperto is anPortugueseadj. It means: o mesmo que desperto Pronounced /isˈpɛʁ.tu/ [isˈpɛh.tu], /esˈpɛʁ.tu/ [esˈpɛh.tu]. It ranks #7,905 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with espeto and esporte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esperto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /isˈpɛʁ.tu/ [isˈpɛh.tu], /esˈpɛʁ.tu/ [esˈpɛh.tu] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for esperto is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /isˈpɛʁ.tu/ [isˈpɛh.tu], /esˈpɛʁ.tu/ [esˈpɛh.tu]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,905 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for esperto, with forms such as "epserto", "eseprto", and "esperot". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "espeto", "esporte", "excerto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is esperto, spelled E-S-P-E-R-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o mesmo que desperto
- 2diz-se daquele que tem inteligência, espírito agudo; com facilidade para compreender as coisas
- 3que age com malícia, astúcia, manha
- 4com força; com energia
- 5que está um pouco quente
- 6que excita, estimula
- 7sem folga, bem firme (uma corda, cabo, etc.)
- 8bem aceso (o fogo, o lume)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epserto,eseprto,esperot,esperrto,espertto,espetro,espperto,espreto,essperto,seperto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esperto
Misspelling Variants of "esperto"
Frequency rank: #7,905 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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