fome
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,047
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fome is aPortuguesenoun. It means: necessidade de comer ou grande apetite; sofreguidão Pronounced /ˈfɔ.mɨ/. It ranks #1,047 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with for and foz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fome |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɔ.mɨ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fome is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfɔ.mɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,047 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for fome, with forms such as "ffome", "fmoe", and "foem". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "for", "foz", "fon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is fome, spelled F-O-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1necessidade de comer ou grande apetite; sofreguidão
- 2desejo ardente; falta; miséria
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffome,fmoe,foem,fomme,ofme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fome
Misspelling Variants of "fome"
Frequency rank: #1,047 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our Portuguese index: