beira
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,708
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
beira is aPortuguesenoun. It means: margem Pronounced /ˈbɐj.ɾɐ/. It ranks #2,708 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bia and bela.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɐj.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for beira is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɐj.ɾɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,708 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for beira, with forms such as "bbeira", "beiar", and "beirra". 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, "bia", "bela", "beta", 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 beira, spelled B-E-I-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1margem
- 2borda
- 3proximidade
- 4aba de telhado
- 5água pluvial que, por uma ruptura do telhado, cai dentro de casa
- 6tecto de colmo
- 7borda de um terreno de cultura
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbeira,beiar,beirra,beria,biera,ebira
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for beira
Misspelling Variants of "beira"
Frequency rank: #2,708 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index: