sonhar

//su.ˈɲaɾ// verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,580

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

sonhar is aPortugueseverb. It means: ter experiência do sonho durante o sono Pronounced /su.ˈɲaɾ/. It ranks #5,580 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with sonho and soprar.

Key facts for sonhar
PropertyValue
Headwordsonhar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
IPA/su.ˈɲaɾ/
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,580
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sonhar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /su.ˈɲaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,580 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sonhar, with forms such as "osnhar", "snohar", and "sohnar". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "sonho", "soprar", "soar", 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 sonhar, spelled S-O-N-H-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ter experiência do sonho durante o sono
  2. 2
    desejar alguma situação
  3. 3
    imaginar em sonho
  4. 4
    possuir sonho(s)
  5. 5
    render-se à ilusão, à imaginação
  6. 6
    (transitivo direto, pronominal) querer muito alguma coisa; pensar insistentemente:

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osnhar,snohar,sohnar,sonahr,sonharr,sonhhar,sonhra,sonnhar,ssonhar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sonhar

Misspelling Variants of "sonhar"

osnhar6snohar6sohnar6sonahr6sonharr7sonhhar7sonhra6sonnhar7
Misspelling Variants of "sonhar"

Frequency rank: #5,580 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sonhar"?
"sonhar" is spelled S-O-N-H-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is /su.ˈɲaɾ/.
What does "sonhar" mean?
As a verb, "sonhar" means: ter experiência do sonho durante o sono
What words are commonly confused with "sonhar"?
"sonhar" is commonly confused with "sonho", "soprar", "soar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sonhar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sonhar" is /su.ˈɲaɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sonhar" come from?
"sonhar" 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.