empregar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,268
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
empregar is aPortugueseverb. It means: contratar os serviços de alguém; dar emprego a; ter ou manter a seu serviço Pronounced /ẽ.pɾɨ.ˈɡaɾ/. Often confused with empresa and emprego.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empregar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ẽ.pɾɨ.ˈɡaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for empregar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.pɾɨ.ˈɡaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #17,268 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for empregar, with forms such as "emmpregar", "empergar", and "emppregar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "empresa", "emprego", "entregar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 empregar, spelled E-M-P-R-E-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1contratar os serviços de alguém; dar emprego a; ter ou manter a seu serviço
- 2ocupar ou devotar (tempo, energia etc)
- 3fazer uso de; usar; aplicar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emmpregar,empergar,emppregar,empreagr,empregarr,empreggar,empregra,emprgear,emprregar,emrpegar,epmregar,mepregar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for empregar
Misspelling Variants of "empregar"
Frequency rank: #17,268 in Portuguese
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