papar
/pɐ.ˈpaɾ/
The verdict
“papar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,316 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,316
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comer
Corpus desk
Index PT-papar · papar · Portuguese
papar · rank #59,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,316
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH palavreado
Nearest frequency peer: palavreado (-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 “papar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- opto
opto
40,693 corpus weight
- ordene
ordene
40,692 corpus weight
- Ovídio
Ovídio
40,690 corpus weight
- pairar
pairar
40,687 corpus weight
- palavreado
palavreado
40,686 corpus weight
- papar
papar
40,685 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “papar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɐ.ˈpaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “papar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
papar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,316 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɐ.ˈpaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for papar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 papar, spelled P-A-P-A-R.
Definition
- 1comer
- 2colher para si
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).