jogar

verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#918

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

jogar is aPortugueseverb. It means: fazer apostas em jogo It ranks #918 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with jogo and joia.

Key facts for jogar
PropertyValue
Headwordjogar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters5
Frequency rank#918
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for jogar is 5 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #918 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 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 jogar, with forms such as "jgoar", "jjogar", and "joagr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "jogo", "joia", "Jota", 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 jogar, spelled J-O-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    fazer apostas em jogo
  2. 2
    entregar-se ao jogo
  3. 3
    arremessar, atirar, sacudir
  4. 4
    participar do jogo de
  5. 5
    articular
  6. 6
    arremessar-se, atirar-se.
  7. 7
    atribuir (regência verbal com preposição: em)
  8. 8
    pesquisar na internet através de mecanismo de busca internético se introduzindo termo dentro de um campo de pesquisa e se pressionando enter ou botão com respetiva função de iniciar a pesquisa (regência verbal com preposição: em)
  9. 9
    arrastar e soltar imagem em campo de busca de mecanismo de busca por imagem (regência verbal com preposição: em)
  10. 10
    atuar, proceder

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jgoar,jjogar,joagr,jogarr,joggar,jogra,ojgar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jogar

Misspelling Variants of "jogar"

jgoar5jjogar6joagr5jogarr6joggar6jogra5ojgar5
Misspelling Variants of "jogar"

Frequency rank: #918 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jogar"?
"jogar" is spelled J-O-G-A-R.
What does "jogar" mean?
As a verb, "jogar" means: fazer apostas em jogo
What words are commonly confused with "jogar"?
"jogar" is commonly confused with "jogo", "joia", "Jota". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "jogar" come from?
"jogar" 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 J 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.