legar
/lɨ.ˈɡaɾ/
The verdict
“legar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,961 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,961
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deixar como legado
Corpus desk
Index PT-legar · legar · Portuguese
legar · rank #62,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,961
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH levitar
Nearest frequency peer: levitar (+4 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “legar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Josiah
Josiah
37,060 corpus weight
- kitten
kitten
37,055 corpus weight
- Lacombe
Lacombe
37,049 corpus weight
- laundry
laundry
37,045 corpus weight
- legar
legar
37,040 corpus weight
- levitar
levitar
37,036 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “legar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | legar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /lɨ.ˈɡaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “legar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
legar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,961 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /lɨ.ˈɡaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "deixar como legado".
No misspelling variants are generated for legar in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is legar, spelled L-E-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1deixar como legado
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how legar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os pais têm o direito de legar aos seus os seus bens, sem que nenhuma instância tenha o direito de interferir nessa relação.
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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