foro
/ˈfo.ɾu/
The verdict
“foro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,497) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,497
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tribunal de justiça; lugar onde funcionam os órgãos do poder judiciário; fórum; jurisdição, alçada, poder
Corpus desk
Index PT-foro · foro · Portuguese
foro · rank #9,497 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,497
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fortalecimento
Nearest frequency peer: fortalecimento (+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 “foro”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- falhar
falhar
90,511 corpus weight
- foro
foro
90,504 corpus weight
- fortalecime…
fortalecimento
90,503 corpus weight
- frei
frei
90,501 corpus weight
- fôlego
fôlego
90,499 corpus weight
- gelada
gelada
90,498 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “foro” 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 | foro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfo.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “foro”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for foro is neighbouring look-alikes ("foz", "fry", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈfo.ɾu/. Frequency #9,497 among 853 “F” headwords. Gloss: "tribunal de justiça; lugar onde funcionam os órgãos do poder judiciário; fórum; jurisdição, alçada, poder".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for foro, with forms such as "fforo", "foor", and "froo". 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, "foz", "fry", "foto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is foro, spelled F-O-R-O.
Definition
- 1tribunal de justiça; lugar onde funcionam os órgãos do poder judiciário; fórum; jurisdição, alçada, poder
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforo
- foor
- froo
- ofro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foro - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).