Português (Portuguese)
A free Portuguese word reference: definitions, IPA pronunciation, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections from the open Wiktionary corpus.
Portuguese at a glance
PlainSpell indexes 39,583 Portuguese words with 75,631 confusable pairs and 78 homophones; more Portuguese words begin with “C” than any other letter, and “muito vs mundo” is the pair most likely to be confused.
- 39,583
- Portuguese words
- 75,631
- confusable pairs
- 78
- homophones
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2026). Definitions, IPA pronunciation, etymology and spelling corrections, free.
Where Portuguese sits by word inventory
Portuguese indexes 39,583 headwords among 5 languages (corpus inventory, not a quality ranking). Orthogonal to the letter and length charts below.
Portuguese vs all languages by word count
Where this language's indexed vocabulary sits among every PlainSpell language
39,583 5th of 5 the lowest of 5 languages
Languages, banded by headword inventory
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Source Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via PlainSpell · 2026-09-03
Portuguese homophone groups by size
Exclusive cut of 37 Portuguese homophone groups by member count. Orthogonal to the initial-letter chart and word-length distribution below.
Explorar A–Z
Which letters start the most Portuguese words?
Most common initial letters in Portuguese
Top 10 letters, ranked by how many indexed words begin with each
- C
C
2,140 words
- A
A
1,900 words
- P
P
1,578 words
- E
E
1,279 words
- D
D
1,193 words
- S
S
1,185 words
- M
M
1,087 words
- R
R
963 words
- I
I
938 words
- T
T
917 words
How long are Portuguese words?
Portuguese word lengths
18,509 words by word length (letters); the ranking above is drawn from the right-hand tail
word length (letters) →
What this showsPortuguese vocabulary clusters around the middle lengths; the very short and very long words are a small minority of the indexed corpus.
Palavras mais frequentes
Pares mais confundidos
- 1muitovsmundo
- 2tempovstenho
- 3entãovsentre
- 4falarvsfazer
- 5tenhovstinha
- 6entãovsestado
- 7melhorvsmulher
- 8entãovsestar
- 9estadovsestar
- 10falarvsficar
Top 5 pares confundidos num relance
Ordenados por frequência composta × semelhança visual. Barra mais alta = maior probabilidade de substituição real.
Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Portuguese confusables export · Q2 2026 Confusable scores combine word-frequency rank and Damerau–Levenshtein similarity.
Explore Portuguese
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- Look up any Portuguese word for its definition, IPA pronunciation, etymology and misspellings. Browse Portuguese A–Z
- Settle a confusable pair, which spelling means what, compared side by side. Confusable pairs
- See the cross-language rankings: hardest to spell, most confusable, largest homophone groups. Rankings
Source & data vintage
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) Portuguese headword + definitions corpus · Q2 2026 Aggregated and indexed via kaikki.org dictionary export. Confusable pairs are computed; homophone groups are derived from IPA matches.
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