embater
/ẽ.bɐ.ˈteɾ/
The verdict
“embater” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,648 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,648
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - provocar ou sofrer embate
Corpus desk
Index PT-embater · embater · Portuguese
embater · rank #97,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,648
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH elisão
Nearest frequency peer: elisão (-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 “embater”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- discordante
discordante
2,378 corpus weight
- displicência
displicência
2,375 corpus weight
- elisão
elisão
2,354 corpus weight
- embater
embater
2,353 corpus weight
- epistolar
epistolar
2,336 corpus weight
- espetro
espetro
2,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “embater” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embater |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ẽ.bɐ.ˈteɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “embater” em português
Rare enough to double-check
embater is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,648 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ẽ.bɐ.ˈteɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for embater in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 embater, spelled E-M-B-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1provocar ou sofrer embate
- 2chocar com (física ou ideologicamente)
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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