adotar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,258
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
adotar is aPortugueseverb. It means: assumir para si a responsabilidade jurídica de criar (criança ou adolescente): Pronounced /ɐ.dɔ.ˈtaɾ/, /ɐ.dɔ.ˈta/. It ranks #6,258 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with atar and altar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adotar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.dɔ.ˈtaɾ/, /ɐ.dɔ.ˈta/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for adotar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.dɔ.ˈtaɾ/, /ɐ.dɔ.ˈta/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,258 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 adotar, with forms such as "addotar", "adoatr", and "adotarr". 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, "atar", "altar", "apoiar", 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 adotar, spelled A-D-O-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1assumir para si a responsabilidade jurídica de criar (criança ou adolescente):
- 2cuidar de
- 3passar a utilizar:
- 4colocar em uso:
- 5seguir (carreira)
- 6dar aprovação a
- 7dotar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addotar,adoatr,adotarr,adotra,adottar,adtoar,aodtar,daotar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adotar
Misspelling Variants of "adotar"
Frequency rank: #6,258 in Portuguese
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