demorar
/dɨ.mu.ˈɾaɾ/
The verdict
“demorar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,057
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - levar muito tempo ou mais tempo que o normal ou o limite
Corpus desk
Index PT-demorar · demorar · Portuguese
demorar · rank #4,057 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,057
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH demora
Nearest frequency peer: demora (-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 “demorar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- debaixo
debaixo
95,947 corpus weight
- delegacia
delegacia
95,946 corpus weight
- demora
demora
95,945 corpus weight
- demorar
demorar
95,944 corpus weight
- desfile
desfile
95,942 corpus weight
- dieta
dieta
95,941 corpus weight
What this shows “demorar” 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 | demorar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨ.mu.ˈɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “demorar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around demorar (IPA /dɨ.mu.ˈɾaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,057 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for demorar, with forms such as "ddemorar", "demmorar", and "demoarr". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "deparar", "devorar", "detonar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is demorar, spelled D-E-M-O-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1levar muito tempo ou mais tempo que o normal ou o limite
- 2praticar uma ação levando levando mais tempo
- 3morar, residir
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how demorar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notícias boas demoram a chegar; notícias ruins, por outro lado, chegam a cavalo!
Demorei por muitos anos neste apartamento.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddemorar
- demmorar
- demoarr
- demorarr
- demorrar
- demroar
- deomrar
- dmeorar
- edmorar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of demorar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "demorar", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).