dar um fora

phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dar um fora is aPortuguesephrase. It means: rejeitar um parceiro amoroso; negar uma proposta de relacionamento

Key facts for dar um fora
PropertyValue
Headworddar um fora
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dar um fora is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for dar um fora is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dar um fora in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 dar um fora, spelled D-A-R- -U-M- -F-O-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    rejeitar um parceiro amoroso; negar uma proposta de relacionamento
  2. 2
    cometer uma gafe, pagar um mico

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dar um fora"?
"dar um fora" is spelled D-A-R- -U-M- -F-O-R-A.
What does "dar um fora" mean?
As a phrase, "dar um fora" means: rejeitar um parceiro amoroso; negar uma proposta de relacionamento
What language does "dar um fora" come from?
"dar um fora" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.