vaguear
The verdict
“vaguear” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,534 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,534
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - andar sem destino
Corpus desk
Index PT-vaguear · vaguear · Portuguese
vaguear · rank #68,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,534
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH votante
Nearest frequency peer: votante (+8 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 “vaguear”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tauromaquia
tauromaquia
31,501 corpus weight
- teclar
teclar
31,499 corpus weight
- torpor
torpor
31,486 corpus weight
- vaguear
vaguear
31,467 corpus weight
- votante
votante
31,459 corpus weight
- acata
acata
31,432 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vaguear” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaguear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “vaguear” em português
Rare enough to double-check
vaguear is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,534 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for vaguear in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 vaguear, spelled V-A-G-U-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1andar sem destino
- 2passear ociosamente
- 3perder-se em sonhos ou devaneios; devanear
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vaguear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Passa os dias vagueando pela cidade.
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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