esti
/'es.ti/, /'ɛs.ti/
The verdict
“esti” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,193 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,193
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ser
Corpus desk
Index PT-esti · esti · Portuguese
esti · rank #73,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,193
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH estai
Nearest frequency peer: estai (-2 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 “esti”
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 “esti” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esti |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /'es.ti/, /'ɛs.ti/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “esti” em português
Rare enough to double-check
esti is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,193 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /'es.ti/, /'ɛs.ti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for esti, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is esti, spelled E-S-T-I.
Definition
- 1ser
- 2estar
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how esti appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lerni Esperanton ne estas malfacila.
Mi estis hejme hieraŭ.
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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