embater
/ẽ.bɐ.ˈteɾ/
The verdict
“embater” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,648 among 2,493 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,648
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,493
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - provocar ou sofrer embate
| 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) |
Where “embater” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
embater is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,648 among 2,493 “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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Using “embater”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-M-B-A-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ẽ.bɐ.ˈteɾ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.