prestado

adj

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The verdict

“prestado” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,845. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,845
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,578
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que se prestou

Corpus desk

Index PT-prestado · prestado · Portuguese

prestado · rank #16,845 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,845
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,578
  • PHOTO-FINISH pretensão

Nearest frequency peer: pretensão (+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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “prestado”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “prestado” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

prestado vs prestar
75% similar
prestado vs prestador
89% similar
prestado vs pesado
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for prestado
PropertyValue
Headwordprestado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#16,845
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “prestado”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.prestadocai aqui:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “pretensão” (#16,846), “platina” (#16,839), “radialista” (#16,855). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “prestado” fica em #16,845. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around prestado, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,845 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "que se prestou".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for prestado, with forms such as "perstado", "pprestado", and "presatdo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "prestar", "prestador", "pesado", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is prestado, spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que se prestou

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. «O seguro de saúde cobriu todos os cuidados médicos que foram prestados ao paciente no hospital.»

This word in other languages

provided(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • perstado
  • pprestado
  • presatdo
  • presstado
  • prestaddo
  • prestaod
  • prestdao
  • presttado
  • pretsado
  • prrestado
  • prsetado
  • rpestado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prestado - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

perstado2pprestado1presatdo2presstado1prestaddo1prestaod2prestdao2presttado1
Edit distance from "prestado"

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 "prestado"?
"prestado" is spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-D-O.
What does "prestado" mean?
As an adjective, "prestado" means: que se prestou
What words are commonly confused with "prestado"?
"prestado" is commonly confused with "prestar", "prestador", "pesado". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "prestado" come from?
"prestado" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prestado", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

oportuno#16,827sanidade#16,874anomalia#16,932esgotado#16,753

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

estudioso12 variantsdomicílio12 variantsdesilusão12 variantscoerência12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list