regervsrégiaConfusable pair

Quick tell: reger is a verb, régia is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“reger” is a verb and “régia” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,457
“reger” frequency rank
#25,815
“régia” frequency rank
64272
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reger régia
Definition governar feminino de régio

Letter map: reger vs régia

Shared letters muted; letters that set reger and régia apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch
reger
5 ch
régia

Part-of-speech tell for reger / régia

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reger is averb and régiaanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64272, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reger is recorded at frequency rank #38,457, classified as averb, pronounced /Rɨ.ˈʒeɾ/. régia is at rank #25,815, tagged as anadj.

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 64272, this pair ranks #5,847 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of reger vs régia

Shared letters: gr. Private to "reger": e. Private to "régia": aié.

"reger" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "régia" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • regererger · reegr · regerr · regger · regre · rgeer · rreger

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "reger" and "régia" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reger" is a verb and "régia" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "reger" or "régia" show up more?
"régia" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,815 in our Portuguese list, against #38,457 for "reger". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "reger" vs "régia" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "reger" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "régia" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,847 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reger" and "régia" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reger vs reles". 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 #5,847 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