voar

verb

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,776

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

voar is aPortugueseverb. It means: sustentar-se ou mover-se no ar It ranks #4,776 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with voz and voo.

Key facts for voar
PropertyValue
Headwordvoar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,776
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for voar is 4 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #4,776 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 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for voar, with forms such as "ovar", "vaor", and "voarr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voz", "voo", "vós", 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 voar, spelled V-O-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sustentar-se ou mover-se no ar
  2. 2
    correr
  3. 3
    passar rapidamente
  4. 4
    desaparecer rapidamente

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovar,vaor,voarr,vora,vvoar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for voar

Misspelling Variants of "voar"

ovar4vaor4voarr5vora4vvoar5
Misspelling Variants of "voar"

Frequency rank: #4,776 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voar"?
"voar" is spelled V-O-A-R.
What does "voar" mean?
As a verb, "voar" means: sustentar-se ou mover-se no ar
What words are commonly confused with "voar"?
"voar" is commonly confused with "voz", "voo", "vós". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "voar" come from?
"voar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.