visitar

verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,693

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

visitar is aPortugueseverb. It means: ir e ficar (com uma pessoa ou família) por um curto período de tempo por questão de sociabilidade, polidez, negócios, curiosidade, etc. It ranks #1,693 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with vista and visite.

Key facts for visitar
PropertyValue
Headwordvisitar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,693
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of visitar in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for visitar is 7 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #1,693 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for visitar, with forms such as "ivsitar", "viistar", and "visiatr". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "vista", "visite", "vomitar", 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 visitar, spelled V-I-S-I-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ir e ficar (com uma pessoa ou família) por um curto período de tempo por questão de sociabilidade, polidez, negócios, curiosidade, etc.
  2. 2
    fazer uma visita
  3. 3
    ir ou vir para
  4. 4
    ir a um lugar com objetivo oficial de inspecionar ou examinar

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ivsitar,viistar,visiatr,visitarr,visitra,visittar,vissitar,vistiar,vsiitar,vvisitar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for visitar

Misspelling Variants of "visitar"

ivsitar7viistar7visiatr7visitarr8visitra7visittar8vissitar8vistiar7
Misspelling Variants of "visitar"

Frequency rank: #1,693 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "visitar"?
"visitar" is spelled V-I-S-I-T-A-R.
What does "visitar" mean?
As a verb, "visitar" means: ir e ficar (com uma pessoa ou família) por um curto período de tempo por questão de sociabilidade, polidez, negócios, curiosidade, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "visitar"?
"visitar" is commonly confused with "vista", "visite", "vomitar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "visitar" come from?
"visitar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter V in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.