falir
The verdict
“falir” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #27,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,479
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ir à falência, não ter como cumprir com suas obrigações financeiras
Corpus desk
Index PT-falir · falir · Portuguese
falir · rank #27,479 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,479
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH faísca
Nearest frequency peer: faísca (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “falir”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- espécime
espécime
72,530 corpus weight
- espólio
espólio
72,529 corpus weight
- falir
falir
72,522 corpus weight
- faísca
faísca
72,520 corpus weight
- Fernão
Fernão
72,518 corpus weight
- fundir
fundir
72,509 corpus weight
What this shows “falir” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | falir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “falir”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around falir, averb. Corpus frequency is #27,479 among 853 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ir à falência, não ter como cumprir com suas obrigações financeiras".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for falir, with forms such as "aflir", "failr", and "falirr". 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, "falo", "flor", "Fall", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 falir, spelled F-A-L-I-R.
Definition
- 1ir à falência, não ter como cumprir com suas obrigações financeiras
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how falir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nossa empresa vai falir por incompetência da direção.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aflir
- failr
- falirr
- fallir
- falri
- ffalir
- flair
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of falir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).