amarelar
/ɐ.mɐ.ɾe.ˈlaχ/
The verdict
“amarelar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,965 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,965
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - trocar a cor de alguma coisa para amarela
Corpus desk
Index PT-amarelar · amarelar · Portuguese
amarelar · rank #63,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,965
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH amortecer
Nearest frequency peer: amortecer (+3 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 “amarelar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- adsorção
adsorção
36,057 corpus weight
- airplane
airplane
36,048 corpus weight
- amaciar
amaciar
36,040 corpus weight
- amarelar
amarelar
36,036 corpus weight
- amortecer
amortecer
36,033 corpus weight
- arre
arre
36,019 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “amarelar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amarelar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.mɐ.ɾe.ˈlaχ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “amarelar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
amarelar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,965 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐ.mɐ.ɾe.ˈlaχ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for amarelar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is amarelar, spelled A-M-A-R-E-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1trocar a cor de alguma coisa para amarela
- 2acovardar-se, sentir medo, pipocar
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amarelar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Amarelei a parede da sala de jantar.
O jogador amarelou na final.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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