declinar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,656
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
declinar is aPortugueseverb. It means: eximir-se a, desistir de, recusar (convites, encargos, etc.) Pronounced /dɨ.kli.ˈnaɾ/. Often confused with delirar and desligar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | declinar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨ.kli.ˈnaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for declinar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨ.kli.ˈnaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #38,656 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for declinar, with forms such as "dcelinar", "ddeclinar", and "decclinar". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "delirar", "desligar", "declínio", 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 declinar, spelled D-E-C-L-I-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eximir-se a, desistir de, recusar (convites, encargos, etc.)
- 2enunciar as flexões de nomes pronomes
- 3desviar
- 4desviar-se ou afastar-se de um ponto
- 5desviar-se (astro) do equador celeste
- 6afastar-se (agulha) do norte magnético
- 7diminuir, aproximar-se do fim, decair
- 8declarar, revelar (nomes)
- 9abater, rebaixar
- 10transferir competência ou conhecimento de uma causa para outro juízo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dcelinar,ddeclinar,decclinar,decilnar,declianr,declinarr,declinnar,declinra,decllinar,declniar,delcinar,edclinar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for declinar
Misspelling Variants of "declinar"
Frequency rank: #38,656 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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