estai
The verdict
“estai” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,191 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,191
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cabo fixado na proa ou na popa de uma embarcação, usado para sustentar e dar estabilidade ao mastro ou à vela
Corpus desk
Index PT-estai · estai · Portuguese
estai · rank #73,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,191
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esquistossomo…
Nearest frequency peer: esquistossomose (-1 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 “estai”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- engessado
engessado
26,833 corpus weight
- esquistosso…
esquistossomose
26,811 corpus weight
- estai
estai
26,810 corpus weight
- esti
esti
26,808 corpus weight
- fido
fido
26,787 corpus weight
- fos
fos
26,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “estai” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estai |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “estai” em português
Rare enough to double-check
estai is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,191 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
estai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is estai, spelled E-S-T-A-I.
Definition
- 1cabo fixado na proa ou na popa de uma embarcação, usado para sustentar e dar estabilidade ao mastro ou à vela
- 2imperativo do verbo estar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how estai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O estai de proa mantém o mastro firme contra o vento
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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