velejar
/vɨ.lɨ.ˈʒaɾ/
The verdict
“velejar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,087 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,087
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - navegar à vela
Corpus desk
Index PT-velejar · velejar · Portuguese
velejar · rank #53,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,087
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH tátil
Nearest frequency peer: tátil (-10 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 “velejar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- temerário
temerário
46,946 corpus weight
- torrão
torrão
46,942 corpus weight
- transeunte
transeunte
46,938 corpus weight
- translação
translação
46,936 corpus weight
- tátil
tátil
46,924 corpus weight
- velejar
velejar
46,914 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “velejar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | velejar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /vɨ.lɨ.ˈʒaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “velejar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
velejar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,087 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /vɨ.lɨ.ˈʒaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "navegar à vela".
No misspelling variants are generated for velejar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is velejar, spelled V-E-L-E-J-A-R.
Definition
- 1navegar à vela
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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