teclar

verb

The verdict

“teclar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,502 among 1,850 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,502
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,850
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - bater em teclas:

Key facts for teclar
PropertyValue
Headwordteclar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters6
Frequency rank#68,502
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “teclar” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). teclar lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

teclar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,502 among 1,850 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

teclar has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

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. The correct Portuguese form is teclar, spelled T-E-C-L-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    bater em teclas:
  2. 2
    bater nas teclas de:

Synonyms

teclearteclear

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "teclar"?
"teclar" is spelled T-E-C-L-A-R.
What does "teclar" mean?
As a verb, "teclar" means: bater em teclas:
What language does "teclar" come from?
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Using “teclar”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-E-C-L-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

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list