sonhar
/su.ˈɲaɾ/
The verdict
“sonhar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,580. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,580
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ter experiência do sonho durante o sono
Corpus desk
Index PT-sonhar · sonhar · Portuguese
sonhar · rank #5,580 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,580
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sermos
Nearest frequency peer: sermos (-1 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 “sonhar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- queixa
queixa
94,427 corpus weight
- roubado
roubado
94,425 corpus weight
- sermos
sermos
94,422 corpus weight
- sonhar
sonhar
94,421 corpus weight
- trajetória
trajetória
94,419 corpus weight
- virada
virada
94,413 corpus weight
What this shows “sonhar” 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 | sonhar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /su.ˈɲaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sonhar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sonhar (IPA /su.ˈɲaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,580 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sonhar, with forms such as "osnhar", "snohar", and "sohnar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "sonho", "soprar", "soar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is sonhar, spelled S-O-N-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1ter experiência do sonho durante o sono
- 2desejar alguma situação
- 3imaginar em sonho
- 4possuir sonho(s)
- 5render-se à ilusão, à imaginação
- 6(transitivo direto, pronominal) querer muito alguma coisa; pensar insistentemente:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sonhar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sonhou com sua mãe.
Sonhei que havia enriquecido!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osnhar
- snohar
- sohnar
- sonahr
- sonharr
- sonhhar
- sonhra
- sonnhar
- ssonhar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sonhar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "sonhar", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).