piratear
/pi.ɾɐ.ˈtjaɾ/
The verdict
“piratear” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,759 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,759
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - levar uma vida de corsário
Corpus desk
Index PT-piratear · piratear · Portuguese
piratear · rank #86,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,759
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH Polonia
Nearest frequency peer: Polonia (+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 “piratear”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- patchwork
patchwork
13,258 corpus weight
- permission
permission
13,248 corpus weight
- piratear
piratear
13,242 corpus weight
- Polonia
Polonia
13,238 corpus weight
- preá
preá
13,223 corpus weight
- quadrúpede
quadrúpede
13,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “piratear” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piratear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pi.ɾɐ.ˈtjaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “piratear” em português
Rare enough to double-check
piratear is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,759 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pi.ɾɐ.ˈtjaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for piratear, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is piratear, spelled P-I-R-A-T-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1levar uma vida de corsário
- 2fazer uso ilegal de software protegido por direito de autor
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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