recortar
/Rɨ.kuɾ.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“recortar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,442 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,442
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fazer recortes
Corpus desk
Index PT-recortar · recortar · Portuguese
recortar · rank #66,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,442
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH providencial
Nearest frequency peer: providencial (-15 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 “recortar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- primor
primor
33,580 corpus weight
- providencial
providencial
33,574 corpus weight
- recortar
recortar
33,559 corpus weight
- retrair
retrair
33,540 corpus weight
- retraído
retraído
33,539 corpus weight
- sacristão
sacristão
33,527 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “recortar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recortar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /Rɨ.kuɾ.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “recortar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
recortar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,442 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /Rɨ.kuɾ.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for recortar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is recortar, spelled R-E-C-O-R-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer recortes
- 2cortar contornando desenho:
- 3cortar desenhando uma figura:
- 4cortar um pedaço de página de jornal ou revista, de modo a destacar notícia ou parte de notícia:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recortar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Recortava os bonecos do caderno.
Pacientemente recortávamos estrelas em papel dourado.
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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