zebra
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,600
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
zebra is aPortuguesenoun. It means: mamífero semelhante ao cavalo que se distingue pelo fato de ter listras pretas ou marrom escuras alternadas com brancas Often confused with zero and zorra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zebra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for zebra is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #19,600 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for zebra, with forms such as "ezbra", "zbera", and "zebar". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "zero", "zorra", 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 zebra, spelled Z-E-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mamífero semelhante ao cavalo que se distingue pelo fato de ter listras pretas ou marrom escuras alternadas com brancas
- 2resultado inesperado em uma competição esportiva ou da loteria
- 3numa estrada, marcação às listras brancas indicando passagem para peões
- 4pequena plataforma angulada com baixa elevação que cobre as linhas de cortorno de certas margens de pista de corrida em trechos de frenagem próximos a curvas e que tem por função impedir o escape do automóvel ao servir-lhe de apoio
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ezbra,zbera,zebar,zebbra,zebrra,zerba,zzebra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for zebra
Misspelling Variants of "zebra"
Frequency rank: #19,600 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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