vedete
The verdict
“vedete” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,686 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,686
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mulher que canta e dança em teatros-revistas e musicais
Corpus desk
Index PT-vedete · vedete · Portuguese
vedete · rank #70,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,686
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH verdejante
Nearest frequency peer: verdejante (+1 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 “vedete”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tortuga
tortuga
29,347 corpus weight
- transgredir
transgredir
29,338 corpus weight
- troiano
troiano
29,331 corpus weight
- vedete
vedete
29,315 corpus weight
- verdejante
verdejante
29,314 corpus weight
- abissal
abissal
29,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vedete” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vedete |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “vedete” em português
Rare enough to double-check
vedete is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,686 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vedete, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 vedete, spelled V-E-D-E-T-E.
Definition
- 1mulher que canta e dança em teatros-revistas e musicais
- 2atriz principal de espetáculo teatral ou cinematográfico
- 3pessoa que se destaca por sua excelência
- 4pessoa que se coloca em evidência usando de recursos chamativos; estrela
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vedete appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ele tem saudade das grandes vedetes dos cassinos cariocas.
Passou rapidamente de coadjuvante a vedete.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).