chumbar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,311
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
chumbar is aPortugueseverb. It means: soldar, prender ou obturar com chumbo derretido ou outro metal fusível Pronounced /ʃũ.ˈbaɾ/. Often confused with chumbo and chutar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chumbar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʃũ.ˈbaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for chumbar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʃũ.ˈbaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #48,311 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for chumbar, with forms such as "cchumbar", "chhumbar", and "chmubar". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "chumbo", "chutar", "chupar", 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 chumbar, spelled C-H-U-M-B-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1soldar, prender ou obturar com chumbo derretido ou outro metal fusível
- 2ferir com projétil de chumbo
- 3(Derivação: por extensão de sentido) ferir ou matar com tiro de arma de fogo
- 4apor selo de chumbo ou outro metal a certos documentos ou mercadorias para atestar a sua autenticidade
- 5munir ou guarnecer com pesos de chumbo
- 6(Derivação: sentido figurado) ligar com firmeza
- 7(Derivação: sentido figurado) fechar hermeticamente
- 8(Derivação: sentido figurado) (Regionalismo: Portugal) (Uso: informal) reprovar em exame ou concurso
- 9(Regionalismo: Portugal) (Uso: informal) causar ilusão em
- 10(Derivação: sentido figurado) enfraquecer muito
- 11(Regionalismo: Brasil) fixar na alvenaria com qualquer substância aglutinante e resistente
- 12(Regionalismo: Brasil) (Uso: informal) (Diacronismo: obsoleto) fazer obturação dentária com amálgama ou com outra liga metálica à base de chumbo
- 13dar cor de chumbo; pintar de cinza-escuro
- 14(Derivação: sentido figurado) privar de movimentos
- 15(Derivação: sentido figurado) (Uso: informal) embebedar(-se), embriagar(-se)
- 16(Regionalismo: Brasil) atrair ou sentir-se atraído
- 17(Derivação: sentido figurado) (Regionalismo: Portugal) ser malsucedido
- 18escorrer ou esguichar chumbo líquido para fora do molde
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchumbar,chhumbar,chmubar,chubmar,chumabr,chumbarr,chumbbar,chumbra,chummbar,cuhmbar,hcumbar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chumbar
Misspelling Variants of "chumbar"
Frequency rank: #48,311 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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