recordar
The verdict
“recordar” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #8,383 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #8,383
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - trazer à memória
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 | recordar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “recordar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for recordar is 8 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #8,383 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for recordar, with forms such as "ercordar", "rceordar", and "reccordar". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "reforçar", "recorrer", "reportar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is recordar, spelled R-E-C-O-R-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1trazer à memória
- 2lembrar
- 3ter semelhança com
- 4comemorar
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ercordar,rceordar,reccordar,recodrar,recoradr,recordarr,recorddar,recordra,recorrdar,recrodar,reocrdar,rrecordar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recordar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “recordar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-E-C-O-R-D-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “reforçar” - see the side-by-side comparison. recordar vs reforçar
- 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.