petiscar
/pɨ.tiʃ.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“petiscar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,796 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,796
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comer uma pequena quantidade para provar
Corpus desk
Index PT-petiscar · petiscar · Portuguese
petiscar · rank #75,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,796
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pens
Nearest frequency peer: pens (-5 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 “petiscar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- oportunamen…
oportunamente
24,232 corpus weight
- orm
orm
24,230 corpus weight
- paia
paia
24,223 corpus weight
- pens
pens
24,210 corpus weight
- petiscar
petiscar
24,205 corpus weight
- poeticamente
poeticamente
24,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “petiscar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petiscar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɨ.tiʃ.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “petiscar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
petiscar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,796 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɨ.tiʃ.ˈkaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for petiscar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is petiscar, spelled P-E-T-I-S-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1comer uma pequena quantidade para provar
- 2saborear
- 3comer sem apetite
- 4saborear comida bem confeccionada
- 5conhecer superficialmente um assunto
Synonyms
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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