refrão
/ʁeˈfɾɐ̃w̃/ [heˈfɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
The verdict
“refrão” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #13,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,377
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fala ou dito popular que exprime uma ideia, uma lição, etc.
Corpus desk
Index PT-refrao · refrão · Portuguese
refrão · rank #13,377 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,377
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH rejeitar
Nearest frequency peer: rejeitar (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “refrão”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- prometer
prometer
86,632 corpus weight
- pronunciar
pronunciar
86,631 corpus weight
- protótipo
protótipo
86,629 corpus weight
- refrão
refrão
86,624 corpus weight
- rejeitar
rejeitar
86,622 corpus weight
- ribeira
ribeira
86,618 corpus weight
What this shows “refrão” 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 | refrão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʁeˈfɾɐ̃w̃/ [heˈfɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “refrão”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around refrão (IPA /ʁeˈfɾɐ̃w̃/ [heˈfɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,377 among 963 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for refrão, with forms such as "erfrão", "reffrão", and "refroã". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "regra", "retro", "região", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is refrão, spelled R-E-F-R-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1fala ou dito popular que exprime uma ideia, uma lição, etc.
- 2versos que se repetem ao fim das estâncias de um poema
- 3trecho, tanto da parte melódica quanto da letra, que se repete ao fim das estrofes
- 4algo, especialmente fala, que se repete muito
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erfrão
- reffrão
- refroã
- refrrão
- refãro
- rerfão
- rferão
- rrefrão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refrão - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "refrão", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).