apossar

verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,341

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

apossar is aPortugueseverb. It means: dar posse a; empossar

Key facts for apossar
PropertyValue
Headwordapossar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#50,341
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for apossar is 7 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #50,341 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for apossar 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 apossar, spelled A-P-O-S-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    dar posse a; empossar
  2. 2
    tomar indevidamente posse de; usurpar
  3. 3
    dominar por completo

Frequency rank: #50,341 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "apossar"?
"apossar" is spelled A-P-O-S-S-A-R.
What does "apossar" mean?
As a verb, "apossar" means: dar posse a; empossar
What language does "apossar" come from?
"apossar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.