ear
The verdict
“ear” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #39,574 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #39,574
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - coclear
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 | ear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ear” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ear is 3 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #39,574 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "coclear".
Zero misspellings are on record for ear in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "em", "eu", "el", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ear, spelled E-A-R.
Definition
- 1coclear
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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Using “ear”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “em” - see the side-by-side comparison. ear vs em
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.