chiar

//ˈʃjaɾ// verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#70,127

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chiar is aPortugueseverb. It means: produzir um som agudo e penetrante, dar chios Pronounced /ˈʃjaɾ/.

Key facts for chiar
PropertyValue
Headwordchiar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
IPA/ˈʃjaɾ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#70,127
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for chiar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʃjaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #70,127 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "produzir um som agudo e penetrante, dar chios".

No misspelling variants are generated for chiar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 chiar, spelled C-H-I-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    produzir um som agudo e penetrante, dar chios

Frequency rank: #70,127 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chiar"?
"chiar" is spelled C-H-I-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈʃjaɾ/.
What does "chiar" mean?
As a verb, "chiar" means: produzir um som agudo e penetrante, dar chios
How do you pronounce "chiar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chiar" is /ˈʃjaɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chiar" come from?
"chiar" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.