grampear

verb

The verdict

“grampear” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,340 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,340
frequency rank, Portuguese
521
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - prender ou segurar com grampo

Corpus desk

Index PT-grampear · grampear · Portuguese

grampear · rank #53,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,340
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 521
  • PHOTO-FINISH grevista

Nearest frequency peer: grevista (+3 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “grampear”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “grampear” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for grampear
PropertyValue
Headwordgrampear
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Frequency rank#53,340
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “grampear” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).grampearcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “grevista” (#53,343), “Gentleman” (#53,336), “grávido” (#53,344). Entre 521 lemas com “G”, “grampear” fica em #53,340. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

grampear is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,340 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

grampear has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is grampear, spelled G-R-A-M-P-E-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    prender ou segurar com grampo
  2. 2
    furtar, roubar, assaltar
  3. 3
    prender, deter
  4. 4
    interceptar ligações telefônicas dentro de uma investigação
  5. 5
    colocar escuta secreta em

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how grampear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A Polícia Federal grampeou o telefone dos deputados.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grampear"?
"grampear" is spelled G-R-A-M-P-E-A-R.
What does "grampear" mean?
As a verb, "grampear" means: prender ou segurar com grampo
What language does "grampear" come from?
"grampear" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grampear", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list