anelar

//ɐ.nɨ.ˈlaɾ// noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#54,769

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

anelar is aPortuguesenoun. It means: quarto dedo da mão, contando a partir do polegar, onde, na mão esquerda, coloca-se o anel de noivado Pronounced /ɐ.nɨ.ˈlaɾ/.

Key facts for anelar
PropertyValue
Headwordanelar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ɐ.nɨ.ˈlaɾ/
Letters6
Frequency rank#54,769
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of anelar in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for anelar is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.nɨ.ˈlaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #54,769 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "quarto dedo da mão, contando a partir do polegar, onde, na mão esquerda, coloca-se o anel de noivado".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for anelar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 anelar, spelled A-N-E-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    quarto dedo da mão, contando a partir do polegar, onde, na mão esquerda, coloca-se o anel de noivado

Frequency rank: #54,769 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "anelar"?
"anelar" is spelled A-N-E-L-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is /ɐ.nɨ.ˈlaɾ/.
What does "anelar" mean?
As a noun, "anelar" means: quarto dedo da mão, contando a partir do polegar, onde, na mão esquerda, coloca-se o anel de noivado
How do you pronounce "anelar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "anelar" is /ɐ.nɨ.ˈlaɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "anelar" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.