aer
/ˈɛːr/
The verdict
“aer” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,456 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,456
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ar:
Corpus desk
Index PT-aer · aer · Portuguese
aer · rank #78,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,456
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH adstringente
Nearest frequency peer: adstringente (-3 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 “aer”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- absence
absence
21,560 corpus weight
- acurado
acurado
21,553 corpus weight
- adstringente
adstringente
21,548 corpus weight
- aer
aer
21,545 corpus weight
- agoniado
agoniado
21,537 corpus weight
- aliciamento
aliciamento
21,525 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “aer” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aer |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛːr/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #78,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “aer” em português
Rare enough to double-check
aer is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,456 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɛːr/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aer, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is aer, spelled A-E-R.
Definition
- 1ar:
- 2massacre
- 3combate
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kenaozet eo an aer dreistholl gant nitrogen, oksigen ha dioksidenn garbon.
Synonyms
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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