are
/ˈa.ɾe/
The verdict
“are” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,038) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,038
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unidade de medida de área equivalente a 100 metros quadrados
Corpus desk
Index PT-are · are · Portuguese
are · rank #4,038 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,038
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH anel
Nearest frequency peer: anel (-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 “are”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- adiante
adiante
95,967 corpus weight
- aluno
aluno
95,965 corpus weight
- anel
anel
95,964 corpus weight
- are
are
95,963 corpus weight
- autonomia
autonomia
95,960 corpus weight
- back
back
95,959 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “are” 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 | are |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈa.ɾe/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “are”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for are is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈa.ɾe/. Frequency #4,038 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "unidade de medida de área equivalente a 100 metros quadrados".
Zero misspellings are on record for are in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "at", "av", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is are, spelled A-R-E.
Definition
- 1unidade de medida de área equivalente a 100 metros quadrados
Synonyms
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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