placar

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,781

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

placar is aPortuguesenoun. It means: quadro para registro de pontos alcançados durante uma competição esportiva It ranks #5,781 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with praça and plata.

Key facts for placar
PropertyValue
Headwordplacar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,781
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for placar is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,781 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for placar, with forms such as "lpacar", "palcar", and "plaacr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "praça", "plata", "player", and more, 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 placar, spelled P-L-A-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    quadro para registro de pontos alcançados durante uma competição esportiva
  2. 2
    resultado final dos pontos conseguidos, por ambos os times, numa competição esportiva
  3. 3
    condecoração, venera

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: lpacar,palcar,plaacr,placarr,placcar,placra,plcaar,pllacar,pplacar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for placar

Misspelling Variants of "placar"

lpacar6palcar6plaacr6placarr7placcar7placra6plcaar6pllacar7
Misspelling Variants of "placar"

Frequency rank: #5,781 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "placar"?
"placar" is spelled P-L-A-C-A-R.
What does "placar" mean?
As a noun, "placar" means: quadro para registro de pontos alcançados durante uma competição esportiva
What words are commonly confused with "placar"?
"placar" is commonly confused with "praça", "plata", "player". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "placar" come from?
"placar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.