extirpar
/iʃ.tiɾ.ˈpaɾ/
The verdict
“extirpar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,734 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,734
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - destruir, exterminar, extinguir
Corpus desk
Index PT-extirpar · extirpar · Portuguese
extirpar · rank #59,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,734
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH faris
Nearest frequency peer: faris (+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 “extirpar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- estribo
estribo
40,275 corpus weight
- extirpar
extirpar
40,267 corpus weight
- faris
faris
40,263 corpus weight
- farmacológi…
farmacológico
40,262 corpus weight
- fiabilidade
fiabilidade
40,254 corpus weight
- filó
filó
40,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “extirpar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extirpar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /iʃ.tiɾ.ˈpaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “extirpar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
extirpar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,734 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /iʃ.tiɾ.ˈpaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
extirpar has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is extirpar, spelled E-X-T-I-R-P-A-R.
Definition
- 1destruir, exterminar, extinguir
- 2desarraigar, desenraizar
- 3extrair, arrancar
This word in other languages
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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