espetado
The verdict
“espetado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,718 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,718
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - atravessado com espeto
Corpus desk
Index PT-espetado · espetado · Portuguese
espetado · rank #59,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,718
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH estribo
Nearest frequency peer: estribo (+8 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 “espetado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- endossar
endossar
40,302 corpus weight
- espetado
espetado
40,283 corpus weight
- estribo
estribo
40,275 corpus weight
- extirpar
extirpar
40,267 corpus weight
- faris
faris
40,263 corpus weight
- farmacológi…
farmacológico
40,262 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “espetado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espetado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “espetado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
espetado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,718 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 11 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for espetado in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is espetado, spelled E-S-P-E-T-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1atravessado com espeto
- 2enfiado em espeto
- 3trespassado
- 4varado
- 5direito
- 6teso
- 7empertigado
- 8alçado
- 9cravado
- 10enterrado
- 11que vem próximo à rede, alto e ao ponto mais ao longe da amplitude de movimento de jogador que procede para acertar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how espetado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Levantamento espetado.
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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