pintar
/pĩ.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“pintar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,877. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,877
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aplicar substância de uma cor numa superfície de outra, para mudar a cor da superfície
Corpus desk
Index PT-pintar · pintar · Portuguese
pintar · rank #5,877 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,877
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH porco
Nearest frequency peer: porco (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “pintar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- olímpico
olímpico
94,128 corpus weight
- partilhar
partilhar
94,127 corpus weight
- party
party
94,126 corpus weight
- pintar
pintar
94,124 corpus weight
- porco
porco
94,123 corpus weight
- probabilida…
probabilidade
94,121 corpus weight
What this shows “pintar” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pintar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pĩ.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “pintar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pintar (IPA /pĩ.ˈtaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,877 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pintar, with forms such as "ipntar", "pinatr", and "pinntar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pista", "ponta", "pinto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is pintar, spelled P-I-N-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1aplicar substância de uma cor numa superfície de outra, para mudar a cor da superfície
- 2exercer a arte da pintura
- 3acontecer
- 4aparecer, chegar
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pintar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Outra versão diz que o rosa resultou da mistura de sangue de boi e cal, forma barata de pintar o prédio.
É como se eu fosse um pintor e tivesse escolhido pintar paisagens em vez de natureza-morta, pintar com tinta a óleo e não aquarela.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipntar
- pinatr
- pinntar
- pintarr
- pintra
- pinttar
- pitnar
- pnitar
- ppintar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pintar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pintar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).