istmo
The verdict
“istmo” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #88,325 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #88,325
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - trecho de terra que une dois continentes ou um continente a uma península
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | istmo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “istmo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for istmo is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #88,325 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "trecho de terra que une dois continentes ou um continente a uma península".
istmo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is istmo, spelled I-S-T-M-O.
Definition
- 1trecho de terra que une dois continentes ou um continente a uma península
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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Using “istmo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-S-T-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.