folhear
The verdict
“folhear” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,754 among 1,704 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,754
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,704
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - virar as folhas de uma encadernação
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folhear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “folhear” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
folhear is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,754 among 1,704 “F” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
folhear has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 folhear, spelled F-O-L-H-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1virar as folhas de uma encadernação
- 2cobrir de folhas de algum material
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 “folhear”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is F-O-L-H-E-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.