salgar
/saɫ.ˈɡaɾ/
The verdict
“salgar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,693 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,693
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conservar com sal; pôr em salmoira
Corpus desk
Index PT-salgar · salgar · Portuguese
salgar · rank #87,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,693
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH rufar
Nearest frequency peer: rufar (-12 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “salgar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- realejo
realejo
12,363 corpus weight
- rufar
rufar
12,320 corpus weight
- salgar
salgar
12,308 corpus weight
- somático
somático
12,278 corpus weight
- supremacista
supremacista
12,257 corpus weight
- textão
textão
12,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “salgar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salgar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /saɫ.ˈɡaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “salgar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
salgar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,693 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /saɫ.ˈɡaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for salgar, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is salgar, spelled S-A-L-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1conservar com sal; pôr em salmoira
- 2temperar com sal
- 3deitar muito sal em
- 4vender caro
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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