amargar
/ɐ.mɐɾ.ˈɡaɾ/
The verdict
“amargar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,940 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,940
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ter gosto amargo
Corpus desk
Index PT-amargar · amargar · Portuguese
amargar · rank #72,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,940
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH almejado
Nearest frequency peer: almejado (-2 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 “amargar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- über
über
27,100 corpus weight
- acondiciona…
acondicionamento
27,089 corpus weight
- acólito
acólito
27,084 corpus weight
- almejado
almejado
27,063 corpus weight
- amargar
amargar
27,061 corpus weight
- araçá
araçá
27,039 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “amargar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amargar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.mɐɾ.ˈɡaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “amargar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
amargar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,940 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐ.mɐɾ.ˈɡaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for amargar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is amargar, spelled A-M-A-R-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1ter gosto amargo
- 2tornar amargo
- 3tornar desagradável
- 4sofrer
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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