fervor
/fɨɾ.ˈvoɾ/
The verdict
“fervor” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #26,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,745
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de ferver; fervura
Corpus desk
Index PT-fervor · fervor · Portuguese
fervor · rank #26,745 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,745
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fiação
Nearest frequency peer: fiação (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “fervor”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- estrondo
estrondo
73,263 corpus weight
- ev
ev
73,261 corpus weight
- fervor
fervor
73,256 corpus weight
- fiação
fiação
73,255 corpus weight
- fighter
fighter
73,254 corpus weight
- flo
flo
73,251 corpus weight
What this shows “fervor” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | fervor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɨɾ.ˈvoɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “fervor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fervor (IPA /fɨɾ.ˈvoɾ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,745 among 853 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fervor, with forms such as "efrvor", "ferovr", and "ferrvor". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "furor", "fervura", "favor", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 fervor, spelled F-E-R-V-O-R.
Definition
- 1ato de ferver; fervura
- 2desejo muito intenso
- 3veemência
- 4entusiasmo
- 5paixão
- 6fanatismo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efrvor
- ferovr
- ferrvor
- fervorr
- fervro
- fervvor
- fevror
- ffervor
- frevor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fervor - 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.
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 "fervor", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).