usted
[us'teð]
The verdict
“usted” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,719 among 147 “U” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,719
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - você
Corpus desk
Index PT-usted · usted · Portuguese
usted · rank #54,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,719
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH vaidades
Nearest frequency peer: vaidades (+2 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 “usted”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- timoneiro
timoneiro
45,303 corpus weight
- toada
toada
45,301 corpus weight
- tricotar
tricotar
45,289 corpus weight
- usted
usted
45,282 corpus weight
- vaidades
vaidades
45,280 corpus weight
- wrap
wrap
45,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “usted” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usted |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [us'teð] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “usted” em português
Rare enough to double-check
usted is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,719 among 147 “U” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [us'teð]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "você".
Zero misspellings are on record for usted in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is usted, spelled U-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1você
Synonyms
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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