feravsferasTell them apart

Quick tell: fera is a noun, feras is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“fera” is a noun and “feras” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#9,053
“fera” frequency rank
#21,182
“feras” frequency rank
30235
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fera feras
Definition animal feroz e carnívoro forma feminina plural de fero

Letter map: fera vs feras

Shared letters muted; letters that set fera and feras apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch
fera
5 ch
feras

Part-of-speech tell for fera / feras

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fera is anoun and ferasanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “fera” sits inside “feras”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30235, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fera is recorded at frequency rank #9,053, classified as anoun. feras is at rank #21,182, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈfɛ.ɾɐs/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 30235, this pair ranks #38,184 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of fera vs feras

Shared letters: aefr. Private to "fera": -. Private to "feras": s.

"fera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "feras" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feraefra · fear · ffera · frea
  • ferasefras · fears · ferass · ferras · fersa · fferas · freas

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "fera" and "feras" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fera" is a noun and "feras" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "fera" or "feras" show up more?
"fera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,053 in our Portuguese list, against #21,182 for "feras". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "fera" and "feras". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "feras" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #38,184 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fera" and "feras" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feras vs fern". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #38,184 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list