sereia

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#11,967

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

sereia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ser mitológico, metade peixe, metade mulher, cujo canto atraía navegantes para o fundo do mar Often confused with seria and série.

Key facts for sereia
PropertyValue
Headwordsereia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,967
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sereia in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sereia is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #11,967 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sereia, with forms such as "esreia", "seeria", and "sereai". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "seria", "série", "sério", 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 sereia, spelled S-E-R-E-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ser mitológico, metade peixe, metade mulher, cujo canto atraía navegantes para o fundo do mar
  2. 2
    mulher fisicamente sedutora

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esreia,seeria,sereai,seriea,serreia,sreeia,ssereia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sereia

Misspelling Variants of "sereia"

esreia6seeria6sereai6seriea6serreia7sreeia6ssereia7
Misspelling Variants of "sereia"

Frequency rank: #11,967 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sereia"?
"sereia" is spelled S-E-R-E-I-A.
What does "sereia" mean?
As a noun, "sereia" means: ser mitológico, metade peixe, metade mulher, cujo canto atraía navegantes para o fundo do mar
What words are commonly confused with "sereia"?
"sereia" is commonly confused with "seria", "série", "sério". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "sereia" come from?
"sereia" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.