vedete

noun

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for vedete
PropertyValue
Headwordvedete
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#70,686
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “vedete” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.vedetecai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “verdejante” (#70,687), “troiano” (#70,670), “transgredir” (#70,663). Entre 501 lemas com “V”, “vedete” fica em #70,686. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    mulher que canta e dança em teatros-revistas e musicais
  2. 2
    atriz principal de espetáculo teatral ou cinematográfico
  3. 3
    pessoa que se destaca por sua excelência
  4. 4
    pessoa que se coloca em evidência usando de recursos chamativos; estrela

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ele tem saudade das grandes vedetes dos cassinos cariocas.
  2. Passou rapidamente de coadjuvante a vedete.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vedete"?
"vedete" is spelled V-E-D-E-T-E.
What does "vedete" mean?
As a noun, "vedete" means: mulher que canta e dança em teatros-revistas e musicais
What language does "vedete" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vedete", 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