discar
/diʃ.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“discar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,919 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,919
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chamar alguém pelo telefone
Corpus desk
Index PT-discar · discar · Portuguese
discar · rank #54,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,919
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH dinamização
Nearest frequency peer: dinamização (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “discar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- degredo
degredo
45,101 corpus weight
- desamor
desamor
45,094 corpus weight
- dinamização
dinamização
45,083 corpus weight
- discar
discar
45,082 corpus weight
- dizimar
dizimar
45,077 corpus weight
- draga
draga
45,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “discar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /diʃ.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “discar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
discar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,919 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /diʃ.ˈkaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
discar has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is discar, spelled D-I-S-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1chamar alguém pelo telefone
- 2pressionar num conjunto de botões atribuídos individual, numérica e sequencialmente de 0 a 9, dígito de uma sequência correspondente a um número telefônico a ser utilizado para tentativa de conexão telefônica
This word in other languages
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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