morar

//mu.ˈɾaɾ// verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,962

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

morar is aPortugueseverb. It means: habitar, viver, ter estabelecido residência Pronounced /mu.ˈɾaɾ/. It ranks #2,962 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with morte and mudar.

Key facts for morar
PropertyValue
Headwordmorar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
IPA/mu.ˈɾaɾ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,962
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of morar in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for morar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mu.ˈɾaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,962 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "habitar, viver, ter estabelecido residência".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for morar, with forms such as "mmorar", "moarr", and "morarr". 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, "morte", "mudar", "morto", 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 morar, spelled M-O-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    habitar, viver, ter estabelecido residência

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmorar,moarr,morarr,morrar,mroar,omrar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for morar

Misspelling Variants of "morar"

mmorar6moarr5morarr6morrar6mroar5omrar5
Misspelling Variants of "morar"

Frequency rank: #2,962 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "morar"?
"morar" is spelled M-O-R-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is /mu.ˈɾaɾ/.
What does "morar" mean?
As a verb, "morar" means: habitar, viver, ter estabelecido residência
What words are commonly confused with "morar"?
"morar" is commonly confused with "morte", "mudar", "morto". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "morar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "morar" is /mu.ˈɾaɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "morar" come from?
"morar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.