bar
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,081
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bar is aPortuguesenoun. It means: dependência de hotel, de restaurante, de estabelecimento onde se vendem bebidas normalmente com um balcão; sala ou botequim com tal balcão Pronounced /ˈbaɾ/. It ranks #2,081 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with by and BR.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbaɾ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for bar is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,081 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bi", 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 bar, spelled B-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dependência de hotel, de restaurante, de estabelecimento onde se vendem bebidas normalmente com um balcão; sala ou botequim com tal balcão
- 2peso indiano
- 3peixe também conhecido por perca-do-mar
- 4a unidade de pressão no sistema C.G.S.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #2,081 in Portuguese
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