ressalvar
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
- razoabilida…
razoabilidade
24,933 corpus weight
- rebuscado
rebuscado
24,931 corpus weight
- ressalvar
ressalvar
24,913 corpus weight
- rodela
rodela
24,907 corpus weight
- santificar
santificar
24,888 corpus weight
- saudosismo
saudosismo
24,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ressalvar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ressalvar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ressalvar” em português
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
- 1notar, indicar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ressalvar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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