year
/jiɹ/
The verdict
“year” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #7,852 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,852
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ano, espaço de tempo correspondente à revolução da Terra em torno do Sol que equivale a 365 dias, 6 horas, 13 minutos e 53 segundos
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 | year |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /jiɹ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “year” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for year is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /jiɹ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,852 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for year, with forms such as "eyar", "yaer", and "yearr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "yes", "yet", "your", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is year, spelled Y-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1ano, espaço de tempo correspondente à revolução da Terra em torno do Sol que equivale a 365 dias, 6 horas, 13 minutos e 53 segundos
- 2ano:
- 3ano juliano
- 4ano, espaço de tempo que compreende 12 meses:
- 5série de atividades estabelecidas para um ano⁴:
- 6ano, série (em âmbito escolar):
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eyar,yaer,yearr,yera,yyear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of year - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “year”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is Y-E-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /jiɹ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “yes” - see the side-by-side comparison. year vs yes
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.