brincar

//bɾĩ.ˈkaɾ// verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,263

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

brincar is aPortugueseverb. It means: divertir-se; jogar Pronounced /bɾĩ.ˈkaɾ/. It ranks #2,263 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with brinco and bronca.

Key facts for brincar
PropertyValue
Headwordbrincar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
IPA/bɾĩ.ˈkaɾ/
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,263
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for brincar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bɾĩ.ˈkaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,263 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "divertir-se; jogar".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for brincar, with forms such as "bbrincar", "birncar", and "bricnar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "brinco", "bronca", "brindar", 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 brincar, spelled B-R-I-N-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    divertir-se; jogar

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbrincar,birncar,bricnar,brinacr,brincarr,brinccar,brincra,brinncar,brnicar,brrincar,rbincar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brincar

Misspelling Variants of "brincar"

bbrincar8birncar7bricnar7brinacr7brincarr8brinccar8brincra7brinncar8
Misspelling Variants of "brincar"

Frequency rank: #2,263 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brincar"?
"brincar" is spelled B-R-I-N-C-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is /bɾĩ.ˈkaɾ/.
What does "brincar" mean?
As a verb, "brincar" means: divertir-se; jogar
What words are commonly confused with "brincar"?
"brincar" is commonly confused with "brinco", "bronca", "brindar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "brincar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brincar" is /bɾĩ.ˈkaɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brincar" come from?
"brincar" 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.