air
/ˈɛɹ/
The verdict
“air” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,609) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,609
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aéreo
Corpus desk
Index PT-air · air · Portuguese
air · rank #6,609 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,609
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH adorar
Nearest frequency peer: adorar (-1 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “air”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- adorar
adorar
93,393 corpus weight
- air
air
93,392 corpus weight
- armazenamen…
armazenamento
93,390 corpus weight
- armário
armário
93,389 corpus weight
- Assis
Assis
93,387 corpus weight
- batida
batida
93,385 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “air” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | air |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɛɹ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “air”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for air is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ˈɛɹ/. Frequency #6,609 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "aéreo".
air has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 air, spelled A-I-R.
Definition
- 1aéreo
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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