recrutar

//Rɨ.kɾu.ˈtaɾ// verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,374

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

recrutar is aPortugueseverb. It means: alistar para o serviço militar Pronounced /Rɨ.kɾu.ˈtaɾ/. Often confused with recuar and recusar.

Key facts for recrutar
PropertyValue
Headwordrecrutar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
IPA/Rɨ.kɾu.ˈtaɾ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#17,374
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for recrutar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /Rɨ.kɾu.ˈtaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #17,374 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "alistar para o serviço militar".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for recrutar, with forms such as "ercrutar", "rcerutar", and "reccrutar". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "recuar", "recusar", "refutar", 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 recrutar, spelled R-E-C-R-U-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
    alistar para o serviço militar

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ercrutar,rcerutar,reccrutar,recrrutar,recrtuar,recruatr,recrutarr,recrutra,recruttar,recurtar,rercutar,rrecrutar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recrutar

Misspelling Variants of "recrutar"

ercrutar8rcerutar8reccrutar9recrrutar9recrtuar8recruatr8recrutarr9recrutra8
Misspelling Variants of "recrutar"

Frequency rank: #17,374 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recrutar"?
"recrutar" is spelled R-E-C-R-U-T-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is /Rɨ.kɾu.ˈtaɾ/.
What does "recrutar" mean?
As a verb, "recrutar" means: alistar para o serviço militar
What words are commonly confused with "recrutar"?
"recrutar" is commonly confused with "recuar", "recusar", "refutar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "recrutar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recrutar" is /Rɨ.kɾu.ˈtaɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "recrutar" come from?
"recrutar" 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 R 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.