rae
The verdict
“rae” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,254) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,254
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - granizo, gotas de chuva que chegam ao solo congeladas
Corpus desk
Index PT-rae · rae · Portuguese
rae · rank #19,254 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,254
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH puberdade
Nearest frequency peer: puberdade (-4 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 “rae”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- polegar
polegar
80,760 corpus weight
- pontual
pontual
80,759 corpus weight
- poético
poético
80,756 corpus weight
- puberdade
puberdade
80,751 corpus weight
- rae
rae
80,747 corpus weight
- romeno
romeno
80,737 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “rae” 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 | rae |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “rae”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rae is neighbouring look-alikes ("ri", "ré", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #19,254 among 963 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rae, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ri", "ré", "rio", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is rae, spelled R-A-E.
Definition
- 1granizo, gotas de chuva que chegam ao solo congeladas
- 2grão, grânulo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rakeet tarvitsevat syntyäkseen voimakkaita ilmavirtauksia.
Miksi joskus sataa rakeita?
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).