focar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,422
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
focar is aPortugueseverb. It means: dirigir o foco luminoso a um ponto Pronounced /fu.ˈkaɾ/. It ranks #6,422 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with for and fora.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | focar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fu.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for focar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fu.ˈkaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,422 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 focar, with forms such as "fcoar", "ffocar", and "foacr". 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, "for", "fora", "foco", 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 focar, spelled F-O-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dirigir o foco luminoso a um ponto
- 2ajustar as lentes dum aparato óptico para dar nitidez à imagem
- 3dirigir a atenção a um lugar determinado
- 4olhar com atenção
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fcoar,ffocar,foacr,focarr,foccar,focra,ofcar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for focar
Misspelling Variants of "focar"
Frequency rank: #6,422 in Portuguese
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