usar
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#359
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
usar is aPortugueseverb. It means: empregar habitualmente; fazer uso de; gastar com o uso; pôr em prática; pôr em uso; servir-se de; trazer ou fazer habitualmente; ter por costume; costumar; cotiar; deteriorar; praticar; trajar; tra... Pronounced /u.ˈzaɾ/. It ranks #359 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with use and uva.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /u.ˈzaɾ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for usar is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /u.ˈzaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #359 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for usar, with forms such as "uasr", "usarr", and "usra". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "use", "uva", "usual", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is usar, spelled U-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1empregar habitualmente; fazer uso de; gastar com o uso; pôr em prática; pôr em uso; servir-se de; trazer ou fazer habitualmente; ter por costume; costumar; cotiar; deteriorar; praticar; trajar; trazer; vestir
- 2estar acostumado; ter o hábito ou a prática de; servir-se
- 3estar em uso, praticar-se
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: uasr,usarr,usra,ussar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for usar
Misspelling Variants of "usar"
Frequency rank: #359 in Portuguese
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