ressalvar

verb

The verdict

“ressalvar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,088 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,088
frequency rank, Portuguese
963
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - notar, indicar

Corpus desk

Index PT-ressalvar · ressalvar · Portuguese

ressalvar · rank #75,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,088
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 963
  • PHOTO-FINISH rodela

Nearest frequency peer: rodela (+6 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 “ressalvar”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ressalvar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ressalvar
PropertyValue
Headwordressalvar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters9
Frequency rank#75,088
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “ressalvar” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.ressalvarcai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “rodela” (#75,094), “rebuscado” (#75,070), “razoabilidade” (#75,068). Entre 963 lemas com “R”, “ressalvar” fica em #75,088. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ressalvar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,088 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "notar, indicar".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ressalvar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 ressalvar, spelled R-E-S-S-A-L-V-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    notar, indicar

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Mas é preciso ressalvar que, nos anos anteriores, o crescimento do número de pedidos da Índia foi bem maior do que o do Brasil.

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 "ressalvar"?
"ressalvar" is spelled R-E-S-S-A-L-V-A-R.
What does "ressalvar" mean?
As a verb, "ressalvar" means: notar, indicar
What language does "ressalvar" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list