prestar

verb

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.

Key facts for prestar
PropertyValue
Headwordprestar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,793
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    dedicar; dar com profunda afeição
  2. 2
    realizar verbal e publicamente
  3. 3
    dar de bom grado; dispensar
  4. 4
    dar rápida e cuidadosamente; dispensar
  5. 5
    comunicar, emprestar, transmitir
  6. 6
    submeter-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)
  7. 7
    ter préstimo, ter prestimosidade, ter serventia, ser útil
  8. 8
    ter boa índole, ter boa personalidade, ter bom caráter, ser bom

Synonyms

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"

perstar7pprestar8presatr7presstar8prestarr8prestra7presttar8pretsar7
Misspelling Variants of "prestar"

Frequency rank: #3,793 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prestar"?
"prestar" is spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-R.
What does "prestar" mean?
As a verb, "prestar" means: dedicar; dar com profunda afeição
What words are commonly confused with "prestar"?
"prestar" is commonly confused with "preta", "Prestes", "protestar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "prestar" come from?
"prestar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index:

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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.