postular
The verdict
“postular” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #69,095 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #69,095
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: fazer um pedido; pedir, solicitar
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postular |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /puʃ.tu.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “postular” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for postular is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /puʃ.tu.ˈlaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #69,095 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for postular 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 postular, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1fazer um pedido; pedir, solicitar
- 2pedir ao superior que nomeie (alguém) para cura, reitor, prelado etc., dispensando-o de impedimento canônico
- 3admitir, a título de hipótese; supor, pressupor
- 4admitir de modo mais ou menos implícito
- 5ter como condição de existência, de sucesso, de realização; pressupor
- 6pedir com instância; suplicar, rogar, implorar
- 7requerer, documentando a alegação
- 8expor e requerer (algo) em juízo;
Frequency rank: #69,095 in Portuguese
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Using “postular”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-O-S-T-U-L-A-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /puʃ.tu.ˈlaɾ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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