fan
The verdict
“fan” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,358) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,358
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fã
Corpus desk
Index PT-fan · fan · Portuguese
fan · rank #10,358 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,358
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH Georgia
Nearest frequency peer: Georgia (+3 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 “fan”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- elaborar
elaborar
89,652 corpus weight
- engolir
engolir
89,649 corpus weight
- fan
fan
89,643 corpus weight
- Georgia
Georgia
89,640 corpus weight
- gray
gray
89,636 corpus weight
- homossexual…
homossexualidade
89,634 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “fan” 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 | fan |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “fan”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fan is neighbouring look-alikes ("FC", "foi", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #10,358 among 853 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fan, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FC", "foi", "fez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is fan, spelled F-A-N.
Definition
- 1fã
- 2ventoinha
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Your processor's fan is so noisy.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "fan"?
What does "fan" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "fan"?
What language does "fan" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fan", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).