nasty
/ˈnaː.sti/
The verdict
“nasty” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,110 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,110
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - desagradável
Corpus desk
Index PT-nasty · nasty · Portuguese
nasty · rank #61,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,110
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH narigudo
Nearest frequency peer: narigudo (-1 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 “nasty”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- micose
micose
38,906 corpus weight
- mordaz
mordaz
38,900 corpus weight
- munir
munir
38,894 corpus weight
- narigudo
narigudo
38,892 corpus weight
- nasty
nasty
38,891 corpus weight
- navegante
navegante
38,888 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “nasty” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nasty |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈnaː.sti/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “nasty” em português
Rare enough to double-check
nasty is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,110 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈnaː.sti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
nasty doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 nasty, spelled N-A-S-T-Y.
Definition
- 1desagradável
- 2porco, imundo
- 3desprezível, odioso
- 4obsceno, indecente
- 5perigoso
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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