jogar
The verdict
“jogar” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #918 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #918
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - fazer apostas em jogo
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jogar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jogar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for jogar is 5 letters long, classified as a verb. 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for jogar, with forms such as "jgoar", "jjogar", and "joagr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is jogar, spelled J-O-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer apostas em jogo
- 2entregar-se ao jogo
- 3arremessar, atirar, sacudir
- 4participar do jogo de
- 5articular
- 6arremessar-se, atirar-se.
- 7atribuir (regência verbal com preposição: em)
- 8pesquisar 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)
- 9arrastar e soltar imagem em campo de busca de mecanismo de busca por imagem (regência verbal com preposição: em)
- 10atuar, proceder
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jgoar,jjogar,joagr,jogarr,joggar,jogra,ojgar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jogar - 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.
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.
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Using “jogar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is J-O-G-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “jogo” - see the side-by-side comparison. jogar vs jogo
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.