febre

//ˈfɛ.bɾi// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,152

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

febre is aPortuguesenoun. It means: elevação da temperatura corporal como reação do organismo a uma doença Pronounced /ˈfɛ.bɾi/. It ranks #4,152 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with fera and fern.

Key facts for febre
PropertyValue
Headwordfebre
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈfɛ.bɾi/
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,152
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for febre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfɛ.bɾi/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,152 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "elevação da temperatura corporal como reação do organismo a uma doença".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for febre, with forms such as "efbre", "fbere", and "febbre". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "fera", "fern", "ferro", 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 febre, spelled F-E-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    elevação da temperatura corporal como reação do organismo a uma doença

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: efbre,fbere,febbre,feber,febrre,ferbe,ffebre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for febre

Misspelling Variants of "febre"

efbre5fbere5febbre6feber5febrre6ferbe5ffebre6
Misspelling Variants of "febre"

Frequency rank: #4,152 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "febre"?
"febre" is spelled F-E-B-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈfɛ.bɾi/.
What does "febre" mean?
As a noun, "febre" means: elevação da temperatura corporal como reação do organismo a uma doença
What words are commonly confused with "febre"?
"febre" is commonly confused with "fera", "fern", "ferro". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "febre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "febre" is /ˈfɛ.bɾi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "febre" come from?
"febre" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter F in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.