prestar
The verdict
“prestar” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #3,793 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #3,793
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - dedicar; dar com profunda afeição
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “prestar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for prestar is 7 letters long, classified as a verb. 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 generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prestar, with forms such as "perstar", "pprestar", and "presatr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "preta", "Prestes", "protestar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is prestar, spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-R.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prestar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “prestar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-E-S-T-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “preta” - see the side-by-side comparison. prestar vs preta
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.