morosidade

noun

The verdict

“morosidade” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,535 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,535
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,087
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - qualidade de moroso; demora, lentidão

Corpus desk

Index PT-morosidade · morosidade · Portuguese

morosidade · rank #76,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,535
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,087
  • PHOTO-FINISH mofado

Nearest frequency peer: mofado (-4 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 “morosidade”

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for morosidade
PropertyValue
Headwordmorosidade
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#76,535
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “morosidade” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).morosidadecai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “mofado” (#76,531), “neno” (#76,548), “numb” (#76,554). Entre 1,087 lemas com “M”, “morosidade” fica em #76,535. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

morosidade is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,535 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. morosidade política

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 "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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "morosidade", 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