vaia
/ˈvaj.ɐ/
The verdict
“vaia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,818) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,818
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato público de demonstrar desaprovação por alguém ou a alguma coisa, em geral de maneira ruidosa
Corpus desk
Index PT-vaia · vaia · Portuguese
vaia · rank #35,818 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,818
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH travessão
Nearest frequency peer: travessão (-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 “vaia”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- trainee
trainee
64,190 corpus weight
- travessão
travessão
64,187 corpus weight
- vaia
vaia
64,183 corpus weight
- venta
venta
64,179 corpus weight
- volt
volt
64,174 corpus weight
- xampu
xampu
64,166 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “vaia” 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 | vaia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvaj.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “vaia”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vaia is neighbouring look-alikes ("vi", "vão", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈvaj.ɐ/. Frequency #35,818 among 501 “V” headwords. Gloss: "ato público de demonstrar desaprovação por alguém ou a alguma coisa, em geral de maneira ruidosa".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for vaia, with forms such as "avia", "vaai", and "viaa". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vi", "vão", "viu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is vaia, spelled V-A-I-A.
Definition
- 1ato público de demonstrar desaprovação por alguém ou a alguma coisa, em geral de maneira ruidosa
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avia
- vaai
- viaa
- vvaia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vaia - 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 "vaia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).