tostar
/tuʃ.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“tostar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #95,286 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,286
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - queimar superficialmente
Corpus desk
Index PT-tostar · tostar · Portuguese
tostar · rank #95,286 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,286
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH traitor
Nearest frequency peer: traitor (+2 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 “tostar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tiverdes
tiverdes
4,724 corpus weight
- tomato
tomato
4,720 corpus weight
- tostar
tostar
4,715 corpus weight
- traitor
traitor
4,713 corpus weight
- traveller
traveller
4,708 corpus weight
- troop
troop
4,703 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tostar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tostar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tuʃ.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tostar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tostar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #95,286 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /tuʃ.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
tostar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tostar, spelled T-O-S-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1queimar superficialmente
- 2crestar
- 3tisnar
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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