cegar
/sɨ.ˈɡaɾ/
The verdict
“cegar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,398 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,398
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tirar a visão, tornar cego
Corpus desk
Index PT-cegar · cegar · Portuguese
cegar · rank #50,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,398
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cavado
Nearest frequency peer: cavado (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “cegar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- capuchinho
capuchinho
49,615 corpus weight
- carpa
carpa
49,612 corpus weight
- cautelosame…
cautelosamente
49,607 corpus weight
- cavado
cavado
49,605 corpus weight
- cegar
cegar
49,603 corpus weight
- cerâmico
cerâmico
49,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cegar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cegar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /sɨ.ˈɡaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cegar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cegar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,398 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /sɨ.ˈɡaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
cegar has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is cegar, spelled C-E-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1tirar a visão, tornar cego
- 2privar da visão, impedir de ver
- 3perder a razão, alucinar-se
- 4perder o fio ou gume (a capacidade de cordar)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cegar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ele estava cego pela ambição.
Esta faca está cega e já não corta mais.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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