fiador
The verdict
“fiador” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #45,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,857
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,704
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - pessoa que responde por outra numa responsabilidade de pagamento
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 | fiador |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fiador” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fiador, anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,857 among 1,704 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiador, with forms such as "faidor", "ffiador", and "fiaddor". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "findo", "fígado", "finado", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is fiador, spelled F-I-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1pessoa que responde por outra numa responsabilidade de pagamento
- 2descanso de espingarda
- 3correia do freio de animais
- 4cordão dos copos de espada
- 5parte da amarra que vai do anilho à máquina de suspender, numa amarração a dois ferros com anilho
- 6amarra destalingada da âncora, usada para amarrar o navio à boia
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- faidor
- ffiador
- fiaddor
- fiadorr
- fiadro
- fiaodr
- fidaor
- ifador
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiador - 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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Using “fiador”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is F-I-A-D-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “findo” - see the side-by-side comparison. fiador vs findo
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.