morosidade

noun

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The verdict

“morosidade” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #76,535 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.

#76,535
frequency rank, Portuguese
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - qualidade de moroso; demora, lentidão

Key facts for morosidade
PropertyValue
Headwordmorosidade
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#76,535
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “morosidade” 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). morosidade lands here:

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

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

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for morosidade is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #76,535 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "qualidade de moroso; demora, lentidão".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for morosidade, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is morosidade, spelled M-O-R-O-S-I-D-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    qualidade de moroso; demora, lentidão

This word in other languages

slowness(English)

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 "morosidade"?
"morosidade" is spelled M-O-R-O-S-I-D-A-D-E.
What does "morosidade" mean?
As a noun, "morosidade" means: qualidade de moroso; demora, lentidão
What language does "morosidade" come from?
"morosidade" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “morosidade”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-O-R-O-S-I-D-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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 FrequencyWords open word-frequency list