exacerbar
The verdict
“exacerbar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,087 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,087
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tornar acerbo, áspero
Corpus desk
Index PT-exacerbar · exacerbar · Portuguese
exacerbar · rank #89,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,087
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esturjão
Nearest frequency peer: esturjão (-9 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 “exacerbar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- estival
estival
10,925 corpus weight
- esturjão
esturjão
10,923 corpus weight
- exacerbar
exacerbar
10,914 corpus weight
- farkas
farkas
10,904 corpus weight
- fascinar
fascinar
10,902 corpus weight
- fecundar
fecundar
10,898 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “exacerbar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exacerbar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “exacerbar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
exacerbar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,087 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for exacerbar in our index, 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.
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 exacerbar, spelled E-X-A-C-E-R-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1tornar acerbo, áspero
- 2avivar
- 3irritar; agravar; exasperar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exacerbar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
exacerbar ódios
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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