esperar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#891
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
esperar is aPortugueseverb. It means: ter esperança; aguardar com desejo e uma certa confiança de que algo vá se realizar It ranks #891 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with espiar and esperto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esperar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for esperar is 7 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #891 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for esperar, with forms such as "epserar", "eseprar", and "espearr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "espiar", "esperto", "esperma", 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 esperar, spelled E-S-P-E-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ter esperança; aguardar com desejo e uma certa confiança de que algo vá se realizar
- 2acreditar, desejar, confiar
- 3ficar inativo ou em estado de repouso até que algo aconteça
- 4estar disponível ou pronto (se diz de coisas)
- 5ser negligenciado por um certo tempo
- 6adiar um assunto, uma decisão
- 7aguardar algo com grande antecipação
- 8gestar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epserar,eseprar,espearr,esperarr,esperrar,espperar,esprear,essperar,seperar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esperar
Misspelling Variants of "esperar"
Frequency rank: #891 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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