secular

adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#12,773

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

secular is anPortugueseadj. It means: relativo a século Often confused with selar and século.

Key facts for secular
PropertyValue
Headwordsecular
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
Letters7
Frequency rank#12,773
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for secular is 7 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #12,773 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for secular, with forms such as "escular", "sceular", and "seccular". 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, "selar", "século", "segurar", 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 secular, spelled S-E-C-U-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    relativo a século
  2. 2
    que se faz ou se cumpre de século a século
  3. 3
    que é muito antigo, que dura há muitos anos
  4. 4
    tão longo, tão dilatado, tão demorado, que parece durar um século
  5. 5
    próprio do século; que não cabe à Igreja; profano, temporal, mundano
  6. 6
    que ou aquele que vive no século, no mundo, que não fez votos religiosos, que não está sujeito a ordens monásticas (diz-se de eclesiástico ou freira que parcipa do século, da vida civil)

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: escular,sceular,seccular,secluar,secualr,secularr,secullar,seculra,seuclar,ssecular

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for secular

Misspelling Variants of "secular"

escular7sceular7seccular8secluar7secualr7secularr8secullar8seculra7
Misspelling Variants of "secular"

Frequency rank: #12,773 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "secular"?
"secular" is spelled S-E-C-U-L-A-R.
What does "secular" mean?
As an adj, "secular" means: relativo a século
What words are commonly confused with "secular"?
"secular" is commonly confused with "selar", "século", "segurar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "secular" come from?
"secular" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.