representar
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,723
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
representar is aPortugueseverb. It means: servir para expressar, designar ou denotar (como uma palavra ou símbolo, por exemplo); simbolizar Pronounced /Rɨ.pɾɨ.zẽ.ˈtaɾ/. It ranks #3,723 in Portuguese word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | representar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /Rɨ.pɾɨ.zẽ.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #3,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for representar is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /Rɨ.pɾɨ.zẽ.ˈtaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,723 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 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for representar, with forms such as "erpresentar", "repersentar", and "reppresentar". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 representar, spelled R-E-P-R-E-S-E-N-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1servir para expressar, designar ou denotar (como uma palavra ou símbolo, por exemplo); simbolizar
- 2expressar ou designar usando um termo, caracter ou símbolo
- 3servir como substituto ou agente de outrem
- 4falar e agir por delegação de autoridade
- 5agir em nome de um grupo ou região após ser eleito em votação
- 6apresentar uma representação de algo, como num quadro
- 7apresentar em palavras; descrever
- 8apresentar, produzir ou atuar em obra teatral, televisiva ou cinematográfica
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erpresentar,repersentar,reppresentar,repreesntar,represenatr,represenntar,representarr,representra,representtar,represetnar,represnetar,repressentar,reprresentar,reprseentar,rerpesentar,rperesentar,rrepresentar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for representar
Misspelling Variants of "representar"
Frequency rank: #3,723 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Portuguese index: