lepra
The verdict
“lepra” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #38,788 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #38,788
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - na Antiguidade, designação de diversas doenças de pele, especialmente as de caráter crônico ou contagioso
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 | lepra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lepra” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for lepra is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #38,788 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lepra, with forms such as "elpra", "lepar", and "leppra". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "ler", "leva", "lira", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 lepra, spelled L-E-P-R-A.
Definition
- 1na Antiguidade, designação de diversas doenças de pele, especialmente as de caráter crônico ou contagioso
- 2o mesmo que hanseníase
- 3sarna de cachorro
- 4qualquer coisa cujos efeitos perniciosos e contagiosos são comparáveis aos da lepra
- 5pessoa má, imprestável
- 6jogador ruim, inábil
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elpra,lepar,leppra,leprra,lerpa,llepra,lpera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lepra - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “lepra”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-E-P-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ler” - see the side-by-side comparison. lepra vs ler
- 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.