sacristão
The verdict
“sacristão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,474 among 2,603 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,474
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,603
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aquele que ajuda o padre no altar
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacristão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sacristão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sacristão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,474 among 2,603 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aquele que ajuda o padre no altar".
No misspelling variants are generated for sacristão in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 sacristão, spelled S-A-C-R-I-S-T-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1aquele que ajuda o padre no altar
This word in other languages
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 “sacristão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-A-C-R-I-S-T-Ã-O - 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.