infestar
/ĩ.fesˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.fesˈta(h)]
The verdict
“infestar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #96,833 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,833
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - invadir em grande número com devastação e violência
Corpus desk
Index PT-infestar · infestar · Portuguese
infestar · rank #96,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,833
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH inimputável
Nearest frequency peer: inimputável (+3 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 “infestar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- homogéneo
homogéneo
3,199 corpus weight
- hus
hus
3,193 corpus weight
- ilma
ilma
3,186 corpus weight
- infestar
infestar
3,168 corpus weight
- inimputável
inimputável
3,165 corpus weight
- invulnerabi…
invulnerabilidade
3,151 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “infestar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infestar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ĩ.fesˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.fesˈta(h)] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “infestar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
infestar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #96,833 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ĩ.fesˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.fesˈta(h)]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for infestar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is infestar, spelled I-N-F-E-S-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1invadir em grande número com devastação e violência
- 2cruzar os mares fazendo corso, pirataria
- 3provocar danos sérios, graves estragos
- 4ataque excessivo por parasitas em um ser vivo
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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