singular
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,697
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
singular is anPortugueseadj. It means: relativo a apenas um indivíduo Pronounced /siŋ.gu.ˈlaɾ/. It ranks #7,697 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with simular.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | singular |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /siŋ.gu.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for singular is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /siŋ.gu.ˈlaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,697 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for singular, with forms such as "isngular", "signular", and "singgular". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "simular", 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 singular, spelled S-I-N-G-U-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1relativo a apenas um indivíduo
- 2extraordinário, sem par, que não é comum
- 3extravagante, excêntrico, fora do comum
- 4referente ao número que indica uma só pessoa ou coisa, oposto ao plural
- 5do ponto de vista sintático, diz-se do número que, representando ou não plural, tem o morfema de plural ausente (por exemplo, na frase Tem que comer muito feijão)
- 6na álgebra linear, matriz que não possui inversa
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: isngular,signular,singgular,singluar,singualr,singularr,singullar,singulra,sinngular,sinuglar,snigular,ssingular
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for singular
Misspelling Variants of "singular"
Frequency rank: #7,697 in Portuguese
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