chiar
/ˈʃjaɾ/
The verdict
“chiar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,127 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,127
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - produzir um som agudo e penetrante, dar chios
Corpus desk
Index PT-chiar · chiar · Portuguese
chiar · rank #70,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,127
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH charrua
Nearest frequency peer: charrua (-1 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 “chiar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- castanheiro
castanheiro
29,885 corpus weight
- ceifa
ceifa
29,882 corpus weight
- charrua
charrua
29,875 corpus weight
- chiar
chiar
29,874 corpus weight
- cinzel
cinzel
29,871 corpus weight
- comensal
comensal
29,863 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “chiar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈʃjaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “chiar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
chiar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,127 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈʃjaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "produzir um som agudo e penetrante, dar chios".
chiar has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is chiar, spelled C-H-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1produzir um som agudo e penetrante, dar chios
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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