enfermeira

noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,483

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

enfermeira is aPortuguesenoun. It means: mulher que cuida de doentes numa enfermaria, num hospital ou numa ambulância It ranks #9,483 in Portuguese word frequency.

Key facts for enfermeira
PropertyValue
Headwordenfermeira
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#9,483
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of enfermeira in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for enfermeira is 10 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #9,483 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mulher que cuida de doentes numa enfermaria, num hospital ou numa ambulância".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for enfermeira, with forms such as "efnermeira", "enefrmeira", and "enfemreira". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 enfermeira, spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-I-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    mulher que cuida de doentes numa enfermaria, num hospital ou numa ambulância

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: efnermeira,enefrmeira,enfemreira,enferemira,enfermeiar,enfermeirra,enfermeria,enfermiera,enfermmeira,enferrmeira,enffermeira,enfremeira,ennfermeira,nefermeira

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enfermeira

Misspelling Variants of "enfermeira"

efnermeira10enefrmeira10enfemreira10enferemira10enfermeiar10enfermeirra11enfermeria10enfermiera10
Misspelling Variants of "enfermeira"

Frequency rank: #9,483 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enfermeira"?
"enfermeira" is spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-I-R-A.
What does "enfermeira" mean?
As a noun, "enfermeira" means: mulher que cuida de doentes numa enfermaria, num hospital ou numa ambulância
What are common misspellings of "enfermeira"?
Common misspellings include "efnermeira", "enefrmeira", "enfemreira", "enferemira", "enfermeiar". The correct spelling is "enfermeira".
What language does "enfermeira" come from?
"enfermeira" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Portuguese index:

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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.