informar

verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,147

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

informar is aPortugueseverb. It means: dar uma informação a alguém, deixar ciente de um fato, notícia ou acontecimento, comunicar It ranks #3,147 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with informal and inflamar.

Key facts for informar
PropertyValue
Headwordinformar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,147
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of informar in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for informar is 8 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #3,147 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for informar, with forms such as "ifnormar", "infformar", and "infomrar". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "informal", "inflamar", 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 informar, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    dar uma informação a alguém, deixar ciente de um fato, notícia ou acontecimento, comunicar
  2. 2
    reportar
  3. 3
    tomar ciência de
  4. 4
    dar conhecimento de, ser instrutivo para
  5. 5
    servir de base ou fundamento para
  6. 6
    ministrar ensinamentos para

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ifnormar,infformar,infomrar,inforamr,informarr,informmar,informra,inforrmar,infromar,innformar,inofrmar,niformar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for informar

Misspelling Variants of "informar"

ifnormar8infformar9infomrar8inforamr8informarr9informmar9informra8inforrmar9
Misspelling Variants of "informar"

Frequency rank: #3,147 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "informar"?
"informar" is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-R.
What does "informar" mean?
As a verb, "informar" means: dar uma informação a alguém, deixar ciente de um fato, notícia ou acontecimento, comunicar
What words are commonly confused with "informar"?
"informar" is commonly confused with "informal", "inflamar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "informar" come from?
"informar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter I in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.