precário
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,757
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
precário is anPortugueseadj. It means: de pouca estabilidade ou duração Often confused with preparo and primário.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | precário |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for precário is 8 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #24,757 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for precário, with forms such as "percário", "pprecário", and "prceário". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "preparo", "primário", "prefácio", 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 precário, spelled P-R-E-C-Á-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1de pouca estabilidade ou duração
- 2aquilo ao qual não se aplica os meios ou recursos necessários
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: percário,pprecário,prceário,preccário,precráio,precáiro,precároi,precárrio,preácrio,prrecário,rpecário
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for precário
Misspelling Variants of "precário"
Frequency rank: #24,757 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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