gear
/ʒe.ˈaɾ/, /ʒe.ˈa/
The verdict
“gear” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,339) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,339
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cair geada
Corpus desk
Index PT-gear · gear · Portuguese
gear · rank #24,339 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,339
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH generalizar
Nearest frequency peer: generalizar (+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 “gear”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- fantoche
fantoche
75,675 corpus weight
- forget
forget
75,665 corpus weight
- fuck
fuck
75,664 corpus weight
- gear
gear
75,662 corpus weight
- generalizar
generalizar
75,661 corpus weight
- herdar
herdar
75,653 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “gear” 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 | gear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʒe.ˈaɾ/, /ʒe.ˈa/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “gear”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gear is neighbouring look-alikes ("get", "gel", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ʒe.ˈaɾ/, /ʒe.ˈa/. Frequency #24,339 among 521 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for gear, with forms such as "egar", "gaer", and "gera". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "get", "gel", "gen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is gear, spelled G-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1cair geada
- 2gelar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egar
- gaer
- gera
- ggear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gear - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gear", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).