fez
/ˈfes/
The verdict
“fez” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #203) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #203
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - barrete em forma de cone truncado (usado por alguns muçulmanos)
Corpus desk
Index PT-fez · fez · Portuguese
fez · rank #203 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #203
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH enquanto
Nearest frequency peer: enquanto (-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 “fez”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- lado
lado
99,802 corpus weight
- mulher
mulher
99,801 corpus weight
- enquanto
enquanto
99,799 corpus weight
- fez
fez
99,798 corpus weight
- ninguém
ninguém
99,797 corpus weight
- momento
momento
99,795 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “fez” 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 | fez |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfes/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “fez”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fez is neighbouring look-alikes ("foi", "for", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈfes/. Frequency #203 among 853 “F” headwords. Gloss: "barrete em forma de cone truncado (usado por alguns muçulmanos)".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fez, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foi", "for", "fim", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is fez, spelled F-E-Z.
Definition
- 1barrete em forma de cone truncado (usado por alguns muçulmanos)
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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