mancar
/mɐ̃.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“mancar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,669 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,669
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - coxear, manquejar
Corpus desk
Index PT-mancar · mancar · Portuguese
mancar · rank #63,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,669
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mamografia
Nearest frequency peer: mamografia (-1 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 “mancar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Juni
Juni
36,367 corpus weight
- lentilha
lentilha
36,348 corpus weight
- maconheiro
maconheiro
36,335 corpus weight
- mamografia
mamografia
36,333 corpus weight
- mancar
mancar
36,332 corpus weight
- matadora
matadora
36,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mancar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mancar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /mɐ̃.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mancar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mancar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,669 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /mɐ̃.ˈkaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mancar, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is mancar, spelled M-A-N-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1coxear, manquejar
- 2aleijar, fazer manco
- 3notar que se está a ser inconveniente; se importar ou passar a se importar com o fato de ser inconveniente e assim parar de causar a inconveniência
Synonyms
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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