fermi
/ˈfeɾ.mi/.
The verdict
“fermi” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,354 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,354
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fechar, cerrar, encerrar, trancar
Corpus desk
Index PT-fermi · fermi · Portuguese
fermi · rank #76,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,354
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH felpudo
Nearest frequency peer: felpudo (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “fermi”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- eyeliner
eyeliner
23,656 corpus weight
- factível
factível
23,654 corpus weight
- feather
feather
23,650 corpus weight
- felpudo
felpudo
23,649 corpus weight
- fermi
fermi
23,647 corpus weight
- fonologia
fonologia
23,638 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fermi” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfeɾ.mi/. |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fermi” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fermi is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,354 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈfeɾ.mi/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fechar, cerrar, encerrar, trancar".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fermi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is fermi, spelled F-E-R-M-I.
Definition
- 1fechar, cerrar, encerrar, trancar
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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