descarga
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,034
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
descarga is aPortuguesenoun. It means: tiro de arma de fogo Pronounced /dɨʃ.ˈkaɾ.ɡɐ/. Often confused with descarte and descartar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descarga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.ˈkaɾ.ɡɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for descarga is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨʃ.ˈkaɾ.ɡɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,034 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 descarga, with forms such as "ddescarga", "decsarga", and "desacrga". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "descarte", "descartar", 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 descarga, spelled D-E-S-C-A-R-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tiro de arma de fogo
- 2evacuação
- 3desobrigação
- 4reservatório colocado nas latrinas que, depois de se acionar um mecanismo de descarga, sai água para as lavar
- 5ato de acionar o mecanismo que faz a água sair e lavar a latrina
- 6acionador do mecanismo que faz a água sair e lavar a latrina
- 7lavada feita à latrina por tal água saída
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddescarga,decsarga,desacrga,descagra,descarag,descargga,descarrga,desccarga,descraga,desscarga,dsecarga,edscarga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for descarga
Misspelling Variants of "descarga"
Frequency rank: #12,034 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index: