untar
/ũ.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“untar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,544 among 147 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,544
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aplicar gordura ou substância oleosa
Corpus desk
Index PT-untar · untar · Portuguese
untar · rank #66,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,544
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH useful
Nearest frequency peer: useful (+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 “untar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sépia
sépia
33,486 corpus weight
- transcontin…
transcontinental
33,466 corpus weight
- untar
untar
33,457 corpus weight
- useful
useful
33,456 corpus weight
- verossímil
verossímil
33,451 corpus weight
- Zanzibar
Zanzibar
33,438 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “untar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | untar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ũ.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “untar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
untar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,544 among 147 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ũ.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for untar in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 untar, spelled U-N-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1aplicar gordura ou substância oleosa
- 2engordurar, besuntar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how untar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unte a forma e depois coloque a massa.
This word in other languages
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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