sair
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#290
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sair is aPortugueseverb. It means: passar de dentro para fora; deixar Pronounced /sɐ.ˈiɾ/. It ranks #290 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with si and ser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sair |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /sɐ.ˈiɾ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sair is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɐ.ˈiɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #290 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sair, with forms such as "asir", "sairr", and "sari". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "ser", "são", 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 sair, spelled S-A-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1passar de dentro para fora; deixar
- 2ir para fora de casa; ir à rua
- 3ir aos locais sociais da cidade na companhia de amigos
- 4caber em sorte
- 5deixar de fazer parte de
- 6transpor; arremeter; sobressair; brotar; dimanar; publicar-se
- 7obter êxito; revelar-se; reagir
- 8jogar a primeira carta em um jogo de cartas
- 9custar, ter o preço de
- 10assemelhar-se descendentemente em traço com (regência verbal com preposição: a)
- 11produzir (uma fala de caril engraçado) (com regência verbal com preposição: com)
- 12realizar encontros regulares ou frequentes como casal dentro de uma relação amorosa/conjugal
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asir,sairr,sari,siar,ssair
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sair
Misspelling Variants of "sair"
Frequency rank: #290 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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