hangar

noun

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The verdict

“hangar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #24,674. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,674
frequency rank, Portuguese
409
“H” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abrigo alpendrado ou barracão para aviões, mercadorias, etc.

Corpus desk

Index PT-hangar · hangar · Portuguese

hangar · rank #24,674 · 9 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,674
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 409
  • PHOTO-FINISH hamster

Nearest frequency peer: hamster (-1 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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “hangar”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “hangar” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

hangar vs honrar
67% similar
hangar vs Hunger
50% similar
hangar vs húngaro
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for hangar
PropertyValue
Headwordhangar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#24,674
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “hangar”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).hangarcai aqui:

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

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “hamster” (#24,673), “Hindi” (#24,677), “humanismo” (#24,678). Entre 409 lemas com “H”, “hangar” fica em #24,674. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around hangar, anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,674 among 409 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "abrigo alpendrado ou barracão para aviões, mercadorias, etc.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hangar, with forms such as "ahngar", "hagnar", and "hanagr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "honrar", "Hunger", "húngaro", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is hangar, spelled H-A-N-G-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    abrigo alpendrado ou barracão para aviões, mercadorias, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Que a sua casa devia ser o ex-libris, que a cozinha não podia ser senão asséptica, que a casa de banho devia ter tapetes persas e gravuras de caça e a sala uma dimensão de hangar, e pagou a uma decoradora para lhe dar uma mão.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ahngar
  • hagnar
  • hanagr
  • hangarr
  • hanggar
  • hangra
  • hanngar
  • hhangar
  • hnagar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hangar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ahngar2hagnar2hanagr2hangarr1hanggar1hangra2hanngar1hhangar1
Edit distance from "hangar"

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 "hangar"?
"hangar" is spelled H-A-N-G-A-R.
What does "hangar" mean?
As a noun, "hangar" means: abrigo alpendrado ou barracão para aviões, mercadorias, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "hangar"?
"hangar" is commonly confused with "honrar", "Hunger", "húngaro". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "hangar" come from?
"hangar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

imundo#24,681gavião#24,661forjar#24,653lápide#24,705

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

mediano9 variantsencaixe9 variantscoceira9 variantsamuleto9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list