voar
The verdict
“voar” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,776
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sustentar-se ou mover-se no ar
Corpus desk
Index PT-voar · voar · Portuguese
voar · rank #4,776 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,776
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH visível
Nearest frequency peer: visível (-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 “voar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sorteio
sorteio
95,234 corpus weight
- tornado
tornado
95,231 corpus weight
- tínhamos
tínhamos
95,229 corpus weight
- visível
visível
95,226 corpus weight
- voar
voar
95,225 corpus weight
- aquecimento
aquecimento
95,214 corpus weight
What this shows “voar” 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 | voar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “voar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around voar, averb. Corpus frequency is #4,776 among 501 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for voar, with forms such as "ovar", "vaor", and "voarr". 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, "voz", "voo", "vós", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is voar, spelled V-O-A-R.
Definition
- 1sustentar-se ou mover-se no ar
- 2correr
- 3passar rapidamente
- 4desaparecer rapidamente
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As notícias voam.
O dinheiro voou.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovar
- vaor
- voarr
- vora
- vvoar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "voar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).