iatismo

noun

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The verdict

“iatismo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #99,868 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,868
frequency rank, Portuguese
938
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - esporte praticado com barcos movidos à vela

Corpus desk

Index PT-iatismo · iatismo · Portuguese

iatismo · rank #99,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,868
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 938
  • PHOTO-FINISH impropriedade

Nearest frequency peer: impropriedade (+11 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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “iatismo”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “iatismo” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 2, 2026
Key facts for iatismo
PropertyValue
Headwordiatismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#99,868
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “iatismo” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). iatismo lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

iatismo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #99,868 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "esporte praticado com barcos movidos à vela".

No generated misspelling entries exist for iatismo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is iatismo, spelled I-A-T-I-S-M-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    esporte praticado com barcos movidos à vela

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how iatismo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "Meu irmão pratica iatismo."

Synonyms

velayachting

This word in other languages

yachting(English)yachting(Français)Segeln(Deutsch)

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "iatismo"?
"iatismo" is spelled I-A-T-I-S-M-O.
What does "iatismo" mean?
As a noun, "iatismo" means: esporte praticado com barcos movidos à vela
What language does "iatismo" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hitting#99,853libação#99,960Ligúria#99,964dentuço#99,643

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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list