fervo

noun

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The verdict

“fervo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,009 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,009
frequency rank, Portuguese
853
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ferveção

Corpus desk

Index PT-fervo · fervo · Portuguese

fervo · rank #91,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,009
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 853
  • PHOTO-FINISH gaijin

Nearest frequency peer: gaijin (+21 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 “fervo”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fervo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fervo
PropertyValue
Headwordfervo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#91,009
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “fervo” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.fervocai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “gaijin” (#91,030), “Eurydice” (#90,987), “estafa” (#90,978). Entre 853 lemas com “F”, “fervo” fica em #91,009. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fervo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,009 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ferveção".

fervo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is fervo, spelled F-E-R-V-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    ferveção

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Está um fervo só

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 "fervo"?
"fervo" is spelled F-E-R-V-O.
What does "fervo" mean?
As a noun, "fervo" means: ferveção
What language does "fervo" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

delon#90,889danar#90,874bleed#90,740publi#91,317

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list