perseverar

verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,300

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

perseverar is aPortugueseverb. It means: continuar a acreditar em algo; insistir

Key facts for perseverar
PropertyValue
Headwordperseverar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters10
Frequency rank#56,300
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for perseverar is 10 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #56,300 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "continuar a acreditar em algo; insistir".

No misspelling variants are generated for perseverar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 perseverar, spelled P-E-R-S-E-V-E-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
    continuar a acreditar em algo; insistir

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #56,300 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "perseverar"?
"perseverar" is spelled P-E-R-S-E-V-E-R-A-R.
What does "perseverar" mean?
As a verb, "perseverar" means: continuar a acreditar em algo; insistir
What language does "perseverar" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.