prazer

//pɾɐ.ˈzeɾ// intj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,472

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

prazer is anPortugueseintj. It means: expressa saudação e que está contente ou agindo como alguém em igual estado na apresentação ao conhecer Pronounced /pɾɐ.ˈzeɾ/. It ranks #1,472 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with prazo and prize.

Key facts for prazer
PropertyValue
Headwordprazer
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechIntj
IPA/pɾɐ.ˈzeɾ/
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,472
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for prazer is 6 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɾɐ.ˈzeɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,472 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "expressa saudação e que está contente ou agindo como alguém em igual estado na apresentação ao conhecer".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for prazer, with forms such as "parzer", "pprazer", and "praezr". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "prazo", "prize", "prever", 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 prazer, spelled P-R-A-Z-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    expressa saudação e que está contente ou agindo como alguém em igual estado na apresentação ao conhecer

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: parzer,pprazer,praezr,prazerr,prazre,prazzer,prrazer,przaer,rpazer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prazer

Misspelling Variants of "prazer"

parzer6pprazer7praezr6prazerr7prazre6prazzer7prrazer7przaer6
Misspelling Variants of "prazer"

Frequency rank: #1,472 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prazer"?
"prazer" is spelled P-R-A-Z-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is /pɾɐ.ˈzeɾ/.
What does "prazer" mean?
As an intj, "prazer" means: expressa saudação e que está contente ou agindo como alguém em igual estado na apresentação ao conhecer
What words are commonly confused with "prazer"?
"prazer" is commonly confused with "prazo", "prize", "prever". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prazer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prazer" is /pɾɐ.ˈzeɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prazer" come from?
"prazer" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.