prestar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,793
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
prestar is aPortugueseverb. It means: dedicar; dar com profunda afeição It ranks #3,793 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with preta and Prestes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prestar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for prestar is 7 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #3,793 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 prestar, with forms such as "perstar", "pprestar", and "presatr". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "preta", "Prestes", "protestar", 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 prestar, spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dedicar; dar com profunda afeição
- 2realizar verbal e publicamente
- 3dar de bom grado; dispensar
- 4dar rápida e cuidadosamente; dispensar
- 5comunicar, emprestar, transmitir
- 6submeter-se como candidato à prova em que se concorre e aos aprovados ou melhores aprovados se destina uma ou mais de uma vaga como estudante ou uma ou mais de uma vaga como empregado (seguido de preposição: para)
- 7ter préstimo, ter prestimosidade, ter serventia, ser útil
- 8ter boa índole, ter boa personalidade, ter bom caráter, ser bom
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: perstar,pprestar,presatr,presstar,prestarr,prestra,presttar,pretsar,prrestar,prsetar,rpestar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prestar
Misspelling Variants of "prestar"
Frequency rank: #3,793 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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