fragmentar

/fɾaɡ.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/

//fɾaɡ.mẽ.ˈtaɾ// verb

The verdict

“fragmentar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,978 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,978
frequency rank, Portuguese
853
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - quebrar em fragmentos

Corpus desk

Index PT-fragmentar · fragmentar · Portuguese

fragmentar · rank #73,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,978
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 853
  • PHOTO-FINISH forra

Nearest frequency peer: forra (-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 “fragmentar”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fragmentar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fragmentar
PropertyValue
Headwordfragmentar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
IPA/fɾaɡ.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/
Letters10
Frequency rank#73,978
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “fragmentar” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.fragmentarcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “forra” (#73,977), “formosas” (#73,976), “fisiologista” (#73,971). Entre 853 lemas com “F”, “fragmentar” fica em #73,978. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fragmentar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,978 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /fɾaɡ.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "quebrar em fragmentos".

Zero misspellings are on record for fragmentar in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is fragmentar, spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    quebrar em fragmentos

Antonyms

desfragmentar

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fragmentar"?
"fragmentar" is spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is /fɾaɡ.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/.
What does "fragmentar" mean?
As a verb, "fragmentar" means: quebrar em fragmentos
How do you pronounce "fragmentar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fragmentar" is /fɾaɡ.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fragmentar" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fragmentar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list