placar
The verdict
“placar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,781. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,781
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - quadro para registro de pontos alcançados durante uma competição esportiva
Corpus desk
Index PT-placar · placar · Portuguese
placar · rank #5,781 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,781
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH piso
Nearest frequency peer: piso (-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 “placar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- per
per
94,226 corpus weight
- perdoar
perdoar
94,224 corpus weight
- piso
piso
94,221 corpus weight
- placar
placar
94,220 corpus weight
- referido
referido
94,215 corpus weight
- registrar
registrar
94,214 corpus weight
What this shows “placar” 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 | placar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “placar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around placar, anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,781 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for placar, with forms such as "lpacar", "palcar", and "plaacr". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "praça", "plata", "player", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is placar, spelled P-L-A-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1quadro para registro de pontos alcançados durante uma competição esportiva
- 2resultado final dos pontos conseguidos, por ambos os times, numa competição esportiva
- 3condecoração, venera
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how placar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O placar foi 3 x 1 (Lê-se: 3 a 1).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpacar
- palcar
- plaacr
- placarr
- placcar
- placra
- plcaar
- pllacar
- pplacar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "placar", 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).