cabecear
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#69,398
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cabecear is aPortugueseverb. It means: bater com a cabeça em algum objeto, com o objetivo de direcionar ou redirecionar a sua trajetória
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabecear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cabecear is 8 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #69,398 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 cabecear 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 cabecear, spelled C-A-B-E-C-E-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bater com a cabeça em algum objeto, com o objetivo de direcionar ou redirecionar a sua trajetória
- 2apresentar ato reflexo de trazer a cabeça e/ou cabeça e tronco à posição ereta depois de os ter deixado inclinar repentinamente por perda momentânea do estado de vigília
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #69,398 in Portuguese
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