dosar
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
- desempatar
desempatar
29,808 corpus weight
- donatário
donatário
29,790 corpus weight
- dosar
dosar
29,788 corpus weight
- efedrina
efedrina
29,781 corpus weight
- embaraçado
embaraçado
29,775 corpus weight
- espora
espora
29,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “dosar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dosar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “dosar” em português
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
- 1medir a quantidade
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dosar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«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.
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