dosar

verb

The verdict

“dosar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,213 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,213
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - medir a quantidade

Corpus desk

Index PT-dosar · dosar · Portuguese

dosar · rank #70,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,213
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH donatário

Nearest frequency peer: donatário (-2 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 “dosar”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “dosar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dosar
PropertyValue
Headworddosar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters5
Frequency rank#70,213
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “dosar” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).dosarcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “donatário” (#70,211), “efedrina” (#70,220), “embaraçado” (#70,226). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “dosar” fica em #70,213. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dosar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,213 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "medir a quantidade".

dosar has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is dosar, spelled D-O-S-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    medir a quantidade

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dosar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. «O médico ensinou o paciente a dosar a quantidade correta de insulina antes das refeições.»

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dosar"?
"dosar" is spelled D-O-S-A-R.
What does "dosar" mean?
As a verb, "dosar" means: medir a quantidade
What language does "dosar" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dosar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list