empregar
/ẽ.pɾɨ.ˈɡaɾ/
The verdict
“empregar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #17,268. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,268
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - contratar os serviços de alguém; dar emprego a; ter ou manter a seu serviço
Corpus desk
Index PT-empregar · empregar · Portuguese
empregar · rank #17,268 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,268
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH drop
Nearest frequency peer: drop (-4 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “empregar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- disfarce
disfarce
82,742 corpus weight
- donas
donas
82,738 corpus weight
- drop
drop
82,737 corpus weight
- empregar
empregar
82,733 corpus weight
- escocês
escocês
82,727 corpus weight
- estuprar
estuprar
82,722 corpus weight
What this shows “empregar” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “empregar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around empregar (IPA /ẽ.pɾɨ.ˈɡaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,268 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for empregar, with forms such as "emmpregar", "empergar", and "emppregar". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "empresa", "emprego", "entregar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is empregar, spelled E-M-P-R-E-G-A-R.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empregar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Esta fábrica emprega milhares de pessoas.
Emprega seu tempo livre na leitura dos clássicos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmpregar
- empergar
- emppregar
- empreagr
- empregarr
- empreggar
- empregra
- emprgear
- emprregar
- emrpegar
- epmregar
- mepregar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empregar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "empregar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).