embolar

verb

Letters

7 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

embolar is aPortugueseverb. It means: dar forma de bolo; fazer bola ou bolo uma substância

Key facts for embolar
PropertyValue
Headwordembolar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

embolar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for embolar is 7 letters long, classified as averb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for embolar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is embolar, spelled E-M-B-O-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    dar forma de bolo; fazer bola ou bolo uma substância
  2. 2
    encurvar fazendo bolo; enrolar
  3. 3
    confundir, misturar
  4. 4
    entrar em ou estar em estado de problema
  5. 5
    cair e rolar como bola
  6. 6
    rolar pelo chão abraçadas duas pessoas; engalfinhar
  7. 7
    empolar; sofrer de caroços na pele, embolotar
  8. 8
    pôr bolas na ponta dos chifres da vaca ou boi para evitar ferimentos
  9. 9
    embostar-se; atascar-se em lama, lodo, esterco

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "embolar"?
"embolar" is spelled E-M-B-O-L-A-R.
What does "embolar" mean?
As a verb, "embolar" means: dar forma de bolo; fazer bola ou bolo uma substância
What language does "embolar" come from?
"embolar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.