colocar
/ku.lu.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“colocar” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #696. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #696
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pôr num lugar
Corpus desk
Index PT-colocar · colocar · Portuguese
colocar · rank #696 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #696
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH civil
Nearest frequency peer: civil (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “colocar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- acima
acima
99,308 corpus weight
- atual
atual
99,307 corpus weight
- civil
civil
99,306 corpus weight
- colocar
colocar
99,305 corpus weight
- errado
errado
99,304 corpus weight
- incluindo
incluindo
99,302 corpus weight
What this shows “colocar” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colocar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ku.lu.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “colocar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around colocar (IPA /ku.lu.ˈkaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #696 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for colocar, with forms such as "ccolocar", "cloocar", and "colcoar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "color", "coroar", "começar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is colocar, spelled C-O-L-O-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1pôr num lugar
- 2dispor; situar
- 3pôr um capital a render
- 4dar emprego a
- 5situar-se
- 6empregar-se
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolocar
- cloocar
- colcoar
- collocar
- coloacr
- colocarr
- coloccar
- colocra
- coolcar
- oclocar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colocar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "colocar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).