tacar
The verdict
“tacar” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #62,510 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #62,510
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - dar pancada com taco (na bola); rebater ou empurrar com taco
| 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) |
Where “tacar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tacar is 5 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #62,510 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
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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Using “tacar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-A-C-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.