feriado

noun

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The verdict

“feriado” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,690. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,690
frequency rank, Portuguese
853
“F” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dia de descanso, instituído pelo poder civil ou religioso, em que são suspensas as atividades públicas e particulares

Corpus desk

Index PT-feriado · feriado · Portuguese

feriado · rank #3,690 · 9 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,690
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 853
  • PHOTO-FINISH galeria

Nearest frequency peer: galeria (+4 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 “feriado”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “feriado” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

feriado vs férias
57% similar
feriado vs ferida
71% similar
feriado vs furado
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for feriado
PropertyValue
Headwordferiado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,690
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “feriado”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).feriadocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “galeria” (#3,694), “estabelecimento” (#3,685), “geografia” (#3,695). Entre 853 lemas com “F”, “feriado” fica em #3,690. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around feriado, anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,690 among 853 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "dia de descanso, instituído pelo poder civil ou religioso, em que são suspensas as atividades públicas e particulares".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for feriado, with forms such as "efriado", "feirado", and "feraido". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "férias", "ferida", "furado", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 feriado, spelled F-E-R-I-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    dia de descanso, instituído pelo poder civil ou religioso, em que são suspensas as atividades públicas e particulares

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how feriado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O Dia do Professor é feriado escolar.

This word in other languages

holiday(English)férié(Français)Feiertag(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • efriado
  • feirado
  • feraido
  • feriaddo
  • feriaod
  • feridao
  • ferriado
  • fferiado
  • freiado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feriado - 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.

efriado2feirado2feraido2feriaddo1feriaod2feridao2ferriado1fferiado1
Edit distance from "feriado"

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 "feriado"?
"feriado" is spelled F-E-R-I-A-D-O.
What does "feriado" mean?
As a noun, "feriado" means: dia de descanso, instituído pelo poder civil ou religioso, em que são suspensas as atividades públicas e particulares
What words are commonly confused with "feriado"?
"feriado" is commonly confused with "férias", "ferida", "furado". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "feriado" come from?
"feriado" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "feriado", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

galeria#3,694escapar#3,682correio#3,673barriga#3,665

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

assinado9 variantsLindas9 variantsocupado9 variantsoficina9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list