fera
The verdict
“fera” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,053) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,053
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - animal feroz e carnívoro
Corpus desk
Index PT-fera · fera · Portuguese
fera · rank #9,053 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,053
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH financiar
Nearest frequency peer: financiar (+1 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 “fera”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- estender
estender
90,952 corpus weight
- estratégico
estratégico
90,951 corpus weight
- fera
fera
90,948 corpus weight
- financiar
financiar
90,947 corpus weight
- find
find
90,946 corpus weight
- fundamento
fundamento
90,944 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “fera” 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 | fera |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “fera”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fera is neighbouring look-alikes ("fez", "for", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #9,053 among 853 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for fera, with forms such as "efra", "fear", and "ffera". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fez", "for", "fry", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is fera, spelled F-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1animal feroz e carnívoro
- 2pessoa cruel e sanguinária
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sou trigo de Deus moído pelos dentes das feras
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efra
- fear
- ffera
- frea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fera - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "fera", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).