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 homophone groups; more Portuguese words begin with “A” 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
- homophone groups
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 2026). Definitions, IPA pronunciation, etymology and spelling corrections, free.
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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
- A
A
4,352 words
- C
C
3,948 words
- P
P
3,113 words
- S
S
2,603 words
- E
E
2,493 words
- D
D
2,399 words
- M
M
2,261 words
- B
B
2,073 words
- T
T
1,850 words
- F 1,704
F
1,704 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.
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- Look up any Portuguese word for its definition, IPA pronunciation, etymology and misspellings. Browse Portuguese A–Z
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- 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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