sentar

verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,587

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sentar is aPortugueseverb. It means: colocar em assento It ranks #3,587 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with star and seta.

Key facts for sentar
PropertyValue
Headwordsentar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,587
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sentar is 6 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #3,587 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sentar, with forms such as "esntar", "senatr", and "senntar". 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, "star", "seta", "sexta", 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 sentar, spelled 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

  1. 1
    colocar em assento
  2. 2
    assentar
  3. 3
    tomar assento; assentar-se
  4. 4
    golpear, agredir usando de, fazer ir contra chocando-se

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esntar,senatr,senntar,sentarr,sentra,senttar,setnar,snetar,ssentar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sentar

Misspelling Variants of "sentar"

esntar6senatr6senntar7sentarr7sentra6senttar7setnar6snetar6
Misspelling Variants of "sentar"

Frequency rank: #3,587 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sentar"?
"sentar" is spelled S-E-N-T-A-R.
What does "sentar" mean?
As a verb, "sentar" means: colocar em assento
What words are commonly confused with "sentar"?
"sentar" is commonly confused with "star", "seta", "sexta". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "sentar" come from?
"sentar" 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 S 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.