fera vs foram, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#9,053
“fera” frequency rank: #97
“foram” frequency rank: 9150
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	fera	foram
Definition	animal feroz e carnívoro	terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo ser

Letter map: fera vs foram

Shared letters muted; letters that set fera and foram apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

fera

5 ch

foram

Grammar separator: fera vs foram

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fera is anoun and foramaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9150, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fera is recorded at frequency rank #9,053, classified as anoun. foram is at rank #97, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈfo.ɾã/.

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 9150, this pair ranks #64,386 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of fera vs foram

Shared letters: afr. Private to "fera": e. Private to "foram": mo.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

fera ← efra · fear · ffera · frea
foram ← fforam · foarm · foramm · forma · forram · froam · ofram

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "fera" for "foram" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fera" is a noun and "foram" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "fera" or "foram"?

"foram" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #97 in our Portuguese list, against #9,053 for "fera". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

Full dictionary entry for "fera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "foram" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #64,386 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"fera" and "foram" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fera 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 #64,386 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.