vela
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,478
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vela is aPortuguesenoun. It means: peça de brim ou lona que, presa às vergas de um mastro ou ao próprio mastro da embarcação, impele esta com a ajuda do vento Pronounced /ˈvɛ.lɐ/. It ranks #5,478 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ver and vez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vela |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɛ.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for vela is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvɛ.lɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,478 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for vela, with forms such as "evla", "veal", and "vella". 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, "ver", "vez", "via", 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 vela, spelled V-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1peça de brim ou lona que, presa às vergas de um mastro ou ao próprio mastro da embarcação, impele esta com a ajuda do vento
- 2navio, nau, embarcação
- 3pano que se prende aos braços dos moinhos de vento
- 4desporto náutico praticado em embarcações a vela¹
- 5ato de velar ou vigiar
- 6indivíduo que fica de vigia
- 7privação do sono durante a noite
- 8rolo cilíndrico de cera ou de outra substância gordurosa e combustível com um pavio ao centro que serve para iluminar
- 9espécie de sonda que se introduz nos orifícios naturais do organismo e serve de veículo a vários medicamentos
- 10forma farmacêutica introduzível pela uretra
- 11dispositivo que se encaixa à cabeça do cilindro em um [motor] de combustão interna e inflama a mistura comprimida de ar e combustível por meio de uma centelha elétrica
- 12cilindro oco, feito de material poroso, que serve para purificar impurezas da água destinada para consumo
- 13antiga unidade de medida de intensidade luminosa
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evla,veal,vella,vlea,vvela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vela
Misspelling Variants of "vela"
Frequency rank: #5,478 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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