doar
The verdict
“doar” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #7,016 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #7,016
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - transferir a posse de algo, gratuitamente, para outrem
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 | doar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “doar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for doar is 4 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #7,016 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "transferir a posse de algo, gratuitamente, para outrem".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for doar, with forms such as "daor", "ddoar", and "doarr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dos", "dor", "dom", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is doar, spelled D-O-A-R.
Definition
- 1transferir a posse de algo, gratuitamente, para outrem
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: daor,ddoar,doarr,dora,odar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doar - 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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Using “doar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-O-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “dos” - see the side-by-side comparison. doar vs dos
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.