roast
/ɹoʊst/
The verdict
“roast” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,821 among 1,668 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,821
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,668
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - assado
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roast |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹoʊst/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roast” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
roast is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,821 among 1,668 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹoʊst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "assado".
roast doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is roast, spelled R-O-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1assado
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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Using “roast”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-O-A-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.