have
The verdict
“have” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,419
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ter, possuir
Corpus desk
Index PT-have · have · Portuguese
have · rank #7,419 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,419
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH hard
Nearest frequency peer: hard (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “have”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- freguesia
freguesia
92,589 corpus weight
- funeral
funeral
92,587 corpus weight
- gentil
gentil
92,586 corpus weight
- hard
hard
92,583 corpus weight
- have
have
92,582 corpus weight
- Island
Island
92,574 corpus weight
What this shows “have” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | have |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “have”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around have, averb. Corpus frequency is #7,419 among 409 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for have, with forms such as "ahve", "haev", and "havve". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "he", "hoje", "here", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct Portuguese form is have, spelled H-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1ter, possuir
- 2haver, sofrer
- 3ter de
- 4ir de, pedir (ao se referir as escolhas possíveis a uma pessoa na proximidade)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how have appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have a blue car.
I have to go home now.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahve
- haev
- havve
- hhave
- hvae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of have - 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 "have", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).