bocejar

verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#65,311

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

bocejar is aPortugueseverb. It means: fazer bocejos; abrir a boca de forma involuntária, quando se tem sono ou fome ou quando se está aborrecido:

Key facts for bocejar
PropertyValue
Headwordbocejar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#65,311
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for bocejar is 7 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #65,311 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bocejar 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 bocejar, spelled B-O-C-E-J-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    fazer bocejos; abrir a boca de forma involuntária, quando se tem sono ou fome ou quando se está aborrecido:
  2. 2
    dar indícios de aborrecimento ou enfado:

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #65,311 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bocejar"?
"bocejar" is spelled B-O-C-E-J-A-R.
What does "bocejar" mean?
As a verb, "bocejar" means: fazer bocejos; abrir a boca de forma involuntária, quando se tem sono ou fome ou quando se está aborrecido:
What language does "bocejar" come from?
"bocejar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index:

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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.