salteado
/saɫ.ˈtja.du/
The verdict
“salteado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #79,939 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,939
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tomado de improviso; surpreendido
Corpus desk
Index PT-salteado · salteado · Portuguese
salteado · rank #79,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,939
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH rosbife
Nearest frequency peer: rosbife (-10 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 “salteado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- rebobinar
rebobinar
20,107 corpus weight
- resoluto
resoluto
20,086 corpus weight
- rosbife
rosbife
20,072 corpus weight
- salteado
salteado
20,062 corpus weight
- Sheba
Sheba
20,047 corpus weight
- spiro
spiro
20,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “salteado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salteado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /saɫ.ˈtja.du/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “salteado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
salteado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #79,939 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /saɫ.ˈtja.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
salteado has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is salteado, spelled S-A-L-T-E-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1tomado de improviso; surpreendido
- 2atacado; assaltado
- 3alternado; entremeado; não sucessivo
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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