vir
The verdict
“vir” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #817) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #817
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - transportar-se para o local onde está o interlocutor
Corpus desk
Index PT-vir · vir · Portuguese
vir · rank #817 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #817
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH alta
Nearest frequency peer: alta (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “vir”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- tribunal
tribunal
99,187 corpus weight
- união
união
99,186 corpus weight
- vir
vir
99,184 corpus weight
- alta
alta
99,183 corpus weight
- ambos
ambos
99,182 corpus weight
- aquilo
aquilo
99,181 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “vir” 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 | vir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “vir”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vir is neighbouring look-alikes ("viu", "voz", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #817 among 501 “V” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
vir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "viu", "voz", "voo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is vir, spelled V-I-R.
Definition
- 1transportar-se para o local onde está o interlocutor
- 2atingir um limite
- 3ser proveniente de
- 4ser gerado no ser
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eu vim ao seu encontro.
Seu cabelo vinha até a cintura.
This word in other languages
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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