encontrar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#460
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
encontrar is aPortugueseverb. It means: ir de encontro a Pronounced /ẽ.kõ.ˈtɾaɾ/. It ranks #460 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with encontro and encostar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encontrar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ẽ.kõ.ˈtɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for encontrar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.kõ.ˈtɾaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #460 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for encontrar, with forms such as "ecnontrar", "enccontrar", and "encnotrar". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "encontro", "encostar", "encantar", 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 encontrar, spelled E-N-C-O-N-T-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ir de encontro a
- 2descobrir
- 3achar
- 4ter contato (com pessoa) socialmente
- 5reunir(-se)
- 6estar presente em um determinado local, ou, sítio físico
- 7estar presente, ser parte componente de algo de forma incidental ou não
- 8estar em um determinado estado físico ou emocional
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnontrar,enccontrar,encnotrar,enconntrar,enconrtar,encontarr,encontrarr,encontrra,encontrrar,enconttrar,encotnrar,enncontrar,enocntrar,necontrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encontrar
Misspelling Variants of "encontrar"
Frequency rank: #460 in Portuguese
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