força
['foɾ.sa]
The verdict
“força” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #416 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #416
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expressa apoio e estímulo ao ânimo para que persista, não desista
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 | força |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | ['foɾ.sa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “força” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for força is 5 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ['foɾ.sa]. Corpus data places it at rank #416 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "expressa apoio e estímulo ao ânimo para que persista, não desista".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for força, with forms such as "fforça", "foraç", and "forrça". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foro", "fort", "Form", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is força, spelled F-O-R-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1expressa apoio e estímulo ao ânimo para que persista, não desista
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fforça,foraç,forrça,foçra,froça,ofrça
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of força - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “força”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is F-O-R-Ç-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ['foɾ.sa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “foro” - see the side-by-side comparison. força vs foro
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.