ora
The verdict
“ora” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,489) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,489
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - agora
Corpus desk
Index PT-ora · ora · Portuguese
ora · rank #2,489 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,489
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH marcado
Nearest frequency peer: marcado (-2 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 “ora”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- intervenção
intervenção
97,519 corpus weight
- levado
levado
97,517 corpus weight
- marcado
marcado
97,514 corpus weight
- ora
ora
97,512 corpus weight
- pau
pau
97,509 corpus weight
- seção
seção
97,505 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ora” 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 | ora |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ora”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ora is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ou", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #2,489 among 385 “O” headwords. Gloss: "agora".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ora, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ou", "ovo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is ora, spelled O-R-A.
Definition
- 1agora
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Recém-saído de um referendo, cujo resultado adiou, pelo menos por ora, os planos de implantação do socialismo bolivariano, Hugo Chávez num primeiro momento havia aceitado democraticamente o resultado da consulta popular.
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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