raiva
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,906
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
raiva is aPortuguesenoun. It means: doença infecciosa aguda causada por um vírus de ARN da família dos rabdovírus, transmitida ao homem pela mordida de animais infectados, como o cão, gato, lobo etc., caracterizada por lesões do sist... Pronounced /ˈRaj.vɐ/. It ranks #1,906 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with raiz and rima.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raiva |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈRaj.vɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for raiva is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈRaj.vɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,906 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for raiva, with forms such as "ariva", "raiav", and "raivva". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "raiz", "rima", "rama", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is raiva, spelled R-A-I-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1doença infecciosa aguda causada por um vírus de ARN da família dos rabdovírus, transmitida ao homem pela mordida de animais infectados, como o cão, gato, lobo etc., caracterizada por lesões do sistema nervoso central que provocam convulsão, tetania e paralisia respiratória; hidrofobia
- 2acesso de fúria; arrebatamento violento; cólera, ira
- 3sentimento de irritação, agressividade, rancor e/ou frustração, motivados por aborrecimento, injustiça ou rejeição sofridas, etc
- 4aversão em relação a algo ou alguém; ódio, horror, ojeriza
- 5apetite intenso
- 6desejo veemente; anelo
- 7forte paixão amorosa
- 8prurido que ocorre nas gengivas das crianças, durante a dentição; raivinhas
- 9biscoito seco feito com farinha de trigo, manteiga, ovos e açúcar, a que frequentemente se dá a forma de arabescos caligráficos de intrincados padrões; raivinha
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ariva,raiav,raivva,ravia,riava,rraiva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "raiva"
Frequency rank: #1,906 in Portuguese
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