sacerdote
/sɐ.sɨɾ.ˈdɔ.tɨ/
The verdict
“sacerdote” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #8,683 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,683
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ministro religioso, habilitado para dirigir ou participar em cerimônias de culto
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacerdote |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɐ.sɨɾ.ˈdɔ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sacerdote” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sacerdote is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɐ.sɨɾ.ˈdɔ.tɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,683 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ministro religioso, habilitado para dirigir ou participar em cerimônias de culto".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sacerdote, with forms such as "ascerdote", "saccerdote", and "sacedrote". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sacerdotal", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is sacerdote, spelled S-A-C-E-R-D-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1ministro religioso, habilitado para dirigir ou participar em cerimônias de culto
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ascerdote,saccerdote,sacedrote,sacerddote,sacerdoet,sacerdotte,sacerdtoe,sacerodte,sacerrdote,sacredote,saecrdote,scaerdote,ssacerdote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sacerdote - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “sacerdote”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-A-C-E-R-D-O-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɐ.sɨɾ.ˈdɔ.tɨ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sacerdotal” - see the side-by-side comparison. sacerdote vs sacerdotal
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.