nadar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,539
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
nadar is aPortugueseverb. It means: deslocar-se na água ou sustentar-se sobre ela usando recursos do próprio corpo (pés, mãos, braços, pernas, nadadeiras, cauda etc.) Pronounced /nɐ.ˈdaɾ/. It ranks #9,539 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with nata and nado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nadar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /nɐ.ˈdaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for nadar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /nɐ.ˈdaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,539 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for nadar, with forms such as "naadr", "nadarr", and "naddar". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "nata", "nado", "Nair", 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 nadar, spelled N-A-D-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1deslocar-se na água ou sustentar-se sobre ela usando recursos do próprio corpo (pés, mãos, braços, pernas, nadadeiras, cauda etc.)
- 2ter em abundância
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: naadr,nadarr,naddar,nadra,ndaar,nnadar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nadar
Misspelling Variants of "nadar"
Frequency rank: #9,539 in Portuguese
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