faia
/ˈfaj.ɐ/
The verdict
“faia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,352) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,352
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - árvore alta e ramosa, geralmente da espécie Fagus sylvatica, e também o álamo ou choupo Populus nigra
Corpus desk
Index PT-faia · faia · Portuguese
faia · rank #45,352 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,352
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH favelado
Nearest frequency peer: favelado (+4 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 “faia”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- faia
faia
54,649 corpus weight
- favelado
favelado
54,645 corpus weight
- fierro
fierro
54,642 corpus weight
- foreman
foreman
54,637 corpus weight
- gim
gim
54,625 corpus weight
- GOAT
GOAT
54,624 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “faia” 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 | faia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfaj.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “faia”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for faia is neighbouring look-alikes ("foi", "fim", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈfaj.ɐ/. Frequency #45,352 among 853 “F” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for faia, with forms such as "afia", "faai", and "ffaia". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foi", "fim", "fui", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is faia, spelled F-A-I-A.
Definition
- 1árvore alta e ramosa, geralmente da espécie Fagus sylvatica, e também o álamo ou choupo Populus nigra
- 2lança feita com a madeira dessa árvore
- 3vara dos tratantes de gado
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afia
- faai
- ffaia
- fiaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "faia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).