fala
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#415
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fala is aPortuguesenoun. It means: expressão através da utilização da palavra Pronounced /ˈfa.lɐ/. It ranks #415 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with fan and fax.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fala |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfa.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fala is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfa.lɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #415 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for fala, with forms such as "afla", "faal", and "falla". 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, "fan", "fax", "flo", 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 fala, spelled F-A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1expressão através da utilização da palavra
- 2sons emitidos por animais que imitam a fala humana
- 3tom de voz
- 4estilo, maneira de falar
- 5uso da língua por um determinado indivíduo, numa determinada ocasião; realização individual da língua
- 6maneira de falar de certa região
- 7parte que cada um dos interlocutores diz, num diálogo
- 8discurso feito publicamente
- 9idioma galaico-português falada numa região da Extremadura espanhola, junto à fronteira com Portugal
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afla,faal,falla,ffala,flaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fala
Misspelling Variants of "fala"
Frequency rank: #415 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our Portuguese index: