abanar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,979
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
abanar is aPortugueseverb. It means: agitar o ar com abano Pronounced /ɐ.bɐ.ˈnaɾ/. Often confused with acabar and atacar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abanar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.bɐ.ˈnaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for abanar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.bɐ.ˈnaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,979 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for abanar, with forms such as "aabnar", "abaanr", and "abanarr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "acabar", "atacar", "apagar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is abanar, spelled A-B-A-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1agitar o ar com abano
- 2ventilar com abano ou leque
- 3dar abanões a
- 4agitar ou sacudir continuamente
- 5oscilar, tremer
- 6refrescar-se com abano ou leque
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aabnar,abaanr,abanarr,abannar,abanra,abbanar,abnaar,baanar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abanar
Misspelling Variants of "abanar"
Frequency rank: #34,979 in Portuguese
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