socar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,204
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
socar is aPortugueseverb. It means: dar socos em Pronounced /su.ˈkaɾ/. Often confused with star and sopa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | socar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /su.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for socar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /su.ˈkaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #26,204 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for socar, with forms such as "oscar", "scoar", and "soacr". 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", "sopa", "soma", 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 socar, spelled S-O-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dar socos em
- 2amassar com os punhos cerrados a massa do pão
- 3amassar muito alguma coisa para a endurecer e lhe dar consistência
- 4apertar com força um nó ou uma volta
- 5calcar a pólvora no canhão com a soqueira
- 6calçar ou apertar terra debaixo de uma pedra para a segurar e firmar
- 7pilar; esmigalhar; moer; bater; calcar; malhar; amassar
- 8meter dentro; esconder
- 9refugiar-se; recolher-se; fechar-se; retrair-se
- 10trotar
- 11brotar; renascer
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oscar,scoar,soacr,socarr,soccar,socra,ssocar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for socar
Misspelling Variants of "socar"
Frequency rank: #26,204 in Portuguese
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