estagnar
/es.tɐg.ˈnaɾ/, /ɪs.tɐ.gɪ.ˈna/
The verdict
“estagnar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #95,716 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,716
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deixar de correr, ficar retido
Corpus desk
Index PT-estagnar · estagnar · Portuguese
estagnar · rank #95,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,716
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH estratosférico
Nearest frequency peer: estratosférico (+4 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 “estagnar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- escapavam
escapavam
4,296 corpus weight
- esculhambaç…
esculhambação
4,292 corpus weight
- estagnar
estagnar
4,285 corpus weight
- estratosfér…
estratosférico
4,281 corpus weight
- eutrofização
eutrofização
4,276 corpus weight
- expectável
expectável
4,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “estagnar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estagnar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /es.tɐg.ˈnaɾ/, /ɪs.tɐ.gɪ.ˈna/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “estagnar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
estagnar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #95,716 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /es.tɐg.ˈnaɾ/, /ɪs.tɐ.gɪ.ˈna/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for estagnar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is estagnar, spelled E-S-T-A-G-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1deixar de correr, ficar retido
- 2impedir o fluxo de
- 3deter a evolução de
Antonyms
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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