tacar
The verdict
“tacar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,510 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,510
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dar pancada com taco (na bola); rebater ou empurrar com taco
Corpus desk
Index PT-tacar · tacar · Portuguese
tacar · rank #62,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,510
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH taller
Nearest frequency peer: taller (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “tacar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- swim
swim
37,493 corpus weight
- tacar
tacar
37,491 corpus weight
- taller
taller
37,490 corpus weight
- temperature
temperature
37,487 corpus weight
- tertúlia
tertúlia
37,483 corpus weight
- toi
toi
37,480 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tacar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tacar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tacar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tacar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,510 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tacar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tacar, spelled T-A-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1dar pancada com taco (na bola); rebater ou empurrar com taco
- 2bater com (algo) em
- 3atirar (algo) a distância (em alguém ou em algo)
- 4atear
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tacar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O homem ao lado: Crônicas
Era o irmão de Hamlet que, ao ouvir o nome, largado assim para a sua própria genitora, esqueceu-se que o Rei era apenas um fantasma e tacou-lhe a mão na cara.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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