inventar

verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,931

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

inventar is aPortugueseverb. It means: criar no pensamento; ser o primeiro a ter a ideia de; armar intrigas; contar falsamente It ranks #7,931 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with isentar and inverter.

Key facts for inventar
PropertyValue
Headwordinventar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,931
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for inventar is 8 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #7,931 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 inventar, with forms such as "inevntar", "innventar", and "invenatr". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "isentar", "inverter", "inventário", 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 inventar, spelled I-N-V-E-N-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    criar no pensamento; ser o primeiro a ter a ideia de; armar intrigas; contar falsamente
  2. 2
    descobrir; imaginar; idear; urdir; tramar

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inevntar,innventar,invenatr,invenntar,inventarr,inventra,inventtar,invetnar,invnetar,invventar,ivnentar,niventar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inventar

Misspelling Variants of "inventar"

inevntar8innventar9invenatr8invenntar9inventarr9inventra8inventtar9invetnar8
Misspelling Variants of "inventar"

Frequency rank: #7,931 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inventar"?
"inventar" is spelled I-N-V-E-N-T-A-R.
What does "inventar" mean?
As a verb, "inventar" means: criar no pensamento; ser o primeiro a ter a ideia de; armar intrigas; contar falsamente
What words are commonly confused with "inventar"?
"inventar" is commonly confused with "isentar", "inverter", "inventário". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "inventar" come from?
"inventar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.