lugar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#212
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lugar is aPortuguesenoun. It means: assento Pronounced /lu.ˈɡaɾ/. It ranks #212 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with luta and lula.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lugar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lu.ˈɡaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for lugar is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /lu.ˈɡaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #212 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 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 lugar, with forms such as "lguar", "llugar", and "luagr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "luta", "lula", "luna", 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 lugar, spelled L-U-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1assento
- 2espaço ocupado por um corpo
- 3localidade; pequeno povoado
- 4loja onde se vendem hortaliças, frutas, ovos, etc.
- 5posição, vez ou ordem numa lista ou hierarquia
- 6categoria social
- 7tempo, vagar, oportunidade, ensejo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lguar,llugar,luagr,lugarr,luggar,lugra,ulgar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lugar
Misspelling Variants of "lugar"
Frequency rank: #212 in Portuguese
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