espernear
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,453
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
espernear is aPortugueseverb. It means: agitar as pernas Pronounced /iʃ.pɨɾ.ˈnjaɾ/. Often confused with esperar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espernear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /iʃ.pɨɾ.ˈnjaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for espernear is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.pɨɾ.ˈnjaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #49,453 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for espernear, with forms such as "epsernear", "eseprnear", and "espenrear". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "esperar", 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 espernear, spelled E-S-P-E-R-N-E-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1agitar as pernas
- 2desobedecer ordens
- 3revoltar-se ; protestar
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epsernear,eseprnear,espenrear,esperenar,espernaer,espernearr,espernera,espernnear,esperrnear,esppernear,esprenear,esspernear,sepernear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for espernear
Misspelling Variants of "espernear"
Frequency rank: #49,453 in Portuguese
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