year
/jiɹ/
The verdict
“year” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,852
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 26
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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
Corpus desk
Index PT-year · year · Portuguese
year · rank #7,852 · 5 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,852
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 26
- PHOTO-FINISH acrescentar
Nearest frequency peer: acrescentar (+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 “year”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- transferir
transferir
92,156 corpus weight
- tubarão
tubarão
92,154 corpus weight
- vegetação
vegetação
92,153 corpus weight
- year
year
92,149 corpus weight
- acrescentar
acrescentar
92,148 corpus weight
- afetar
afetar
92,146 corpus weight
What this shows “year” 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 | 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) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “year”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around year (IPA /jiɹ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,852 among 26 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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):
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how year appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mars goes around the Sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
We moved to this town a year ago.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "year", 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).