cair
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,522
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cair is aPortugueseverb. It means: dar queda It ranks #1,522 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ci and cor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cair |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cair is 4 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #1,522 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cair, with forms such as "acir", "cairr", and "cari". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ci", "cor", "cão", 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 cair, spelled C-A-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dar queda
- 2ir ao chão
- 3desabar; tombar
- 4ir dar a
- 5dar sobre
- 6ser enganado
- 7sujeitar-se; praticar; chegar; acontecer
- 8depreciar-se
- 9reconsiderar
- 10passar a constar para efeito de processamento bancário de debitagem
- 11constar como crédito
- 12ter um certo grau de qualidade de beleza, algo, ao ser vestido
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acir,cairr,cari,ccair,ciar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cair
Misspelling Variants of "cair"
Frequency rank: #1,522 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: