pasmado
The verdict
“pasmado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,174 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,174
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - apalermado, espantado, estupefato
Corpus desk
Index PT-pasmado · pasmado · Portuguese
pasmado · rank #83,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,174
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pasteurizado
Nearest frequency peer: pasteurizado (+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 “pasmado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- otherwise
otherwise
16,842 corpus weight
- ouch
ouch
16,841 corpus weight
- overkill
overkill
16,839 corpus weight
- pasmado
pasmado
16,827 corpus weight
- pasteurizado
pasteurizado
16,824 corpus weight
- peneirar
peneirar
16,818 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pasmado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pasmado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pasmado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pasmado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,174 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "apalermado, espantado, estupefato".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pasmado, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is pasmado, spelled P-A-S-M-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1apalermado, espantado, estupefato
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pasmado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Não posso, continuei eu, não menos pasmado que ele, não tenho jeito, não gosto da vida de padre.
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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