ear
The verdict
“ear” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,574) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,574
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - coclear
Corpus desk
Index PT-ear · ear · Portuguese
ear · rank #39,574 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,574
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH embolia
Nearest frequency peer: embolia (+2 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 “ear”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- detox
detox
60,438 corpus weight
- dissuadir
dissuadir
60,435 corpus weight
- dominicano
dominicano
60,433 corpus weight
- ear
ear
60,427 corpus weight
- embolia
embolia
60,425 corpus weight
- enchido
enchido
60,417 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ear” 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 | ear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ear”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ear is neighbouring look-alikes ("em", "eu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #39,574 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ear implant.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).