lar
/ˈlaɾ/
The verdict
“lar” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,089) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,089
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - residência, habitação
Corpus desk
Index PT-lar · lar · Portuguese
lar · rank #3,089 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,089
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH introdução
Nearest frequency peer: introdução (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “lar”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- inferior
inferior
96,917 corpus weight
- introdução
introdução
96,914 corpus weight
- lar
lar
96,912 corpus weight
- mental
mental
96,910 corpus weight
- máxima
máxima
96,909 corpus weight
- off
off
96,908 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lar” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | lar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “lar” fica na frequência do português
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lar is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "ls", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈlaɾ/. Frequency #3,089 among 581 “L” headwords. Gloss: "residência, habitação".
lar has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "ls", "ló", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is lar, spelled L-A-R.
Definition
- 1residência, habitação
This word in other languages
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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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.