sátiro

noun

The verdict

“sátiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,842 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,842
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,185
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aquele que sofre de satiríase

Corpus desk

Index PT-satiro · sátiro · Portuguese

sátiro · rank #55,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,842
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,185
  • PHOTO-FINISH tereré

Nearest frequency peer: tereré (+4 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 “sátiro”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sátiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sátiro
PropertyValue
Headwordsátiro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#55,842
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “sátiro” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).sátirocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “tereré” (#55,846), “sujeição” (#55,836), “ties” (#55,850). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “sátiro” fica em #55,842. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sátiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,842 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for sátiro in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is sátiro, spelled S-Á-T-I-R-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    aquele que sofre de satiríase
  2. 2
    compulsivo sexual

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sátiro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Possuí-la era fazer-lhe um favor. Quantas outras lhe não levaram os olhos de sátiro, ao descer de uma carruagem, ou ao resvalar indolentemente o seu talhe na contradança de bom-tom?

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sátiro"?
"sátiro" is spelled S-Á-T-I-R-O.
What does "sátiro" mean?
As a noun, "sátiro" means: aquele que sofre de satiríase
What language does "sátiro" come from?
"sátiro" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sátiro", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list