penetrar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,922
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
penetrar is aPortugueseverb. It means: passar através ou para dentro de algo Pronounced /pɨ.nɨ.ˈtɾaɾ/. Often confused with pentear and peneira.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penetrar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɨ.nɨ.ˈtɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for penetrar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɨ.nɨ.ˈtɾaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #14,922 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for penetrar, with forms such as "epnetrar", "peentrar", and "penertar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pentear", "peneira", "pendurar", 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 penetrar, spelled P-E-N-E-T-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1passar através ou para dentro de algo
- 2entrar em algo
- 3permear; entrar e se difundir
- 4compreender; entender; chegar à verdade ou ao significado de algo
- 5obter uma parte de um mercado
- 6diz-se do ato de o pênis entrar na vagina (ou o ânus ou a garganta) durante o ato sexual
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epnetrar,peentrar,penertar,penetarr,penetrarr,penetrra,penetrrar,penettrar,pennetrar,penterar,pneetrar,ppenetrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for penetrar
Misspelling Variants of "penetrar"
Frequency rank: #14,922 in Portuguese
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