estar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#186
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
estar is aPortugueseverb. It means: associa uma característica (momentânea, não permanente) a um ser It ranks #186 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ETA and este.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for estar is 5 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #186 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for estar, with forms such as "esatr", "esstar", and "estarr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ETA", "este", "esto", 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 estar, spelled E-S-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1associa uma característica (momentânea, não permanente) a um ser
- 2acompanhado de expressão locativa, denota a situação de um ser no espaço
- 3acompanhado de verbo no gerúndio, denota aspecto contínuo a este verbo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esatr,esstar,estarr,estra,esttar,etsar,setar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for estar
Misspelling Variants of "estar"
Frequency rank: #186 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Portuguese index: