ABC
/aˌbeˈse/
The verdict
“ABC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,156) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,156
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - região compreendida no estado brasileiro de São Paulo pelas cidades de Santo André (o "A"), São Bernardo do Campo (o "B") e São Caetano do Sul (o "C"), de grande industrialização e importância econ...
Corpus desk
Index PT-abc · ABC · Portuguese
ABC · rank #5,156 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,156
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH acabado
Nearest frequency peer: acabado (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ABC”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sucedido
sucedido
94,849 corpus weight
- testemunha
testemunha
94,848 corpus weight
- típico
típico
94,847 corpus weight
- ABC
ABC
94,845 corpus weight
- acabado
acabado
94,844 corpus weight
- acessível
acessível
94,843 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ABC” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ABC |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /aˌbeˈse/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “ABC” fica na frequência do português
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ABC is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced /aˌbeˈse/. Frequency #5,156 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "região compreendida no estado brasileiro de São Paulo pelas cidades de Santo André (o "A"), São Bernardo do Campo (o "B") e São Caetano do Sul (o "C"), de grande industrialização e importância econ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for ABC in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is ABC, spelled A-B-C.
Definition
- 1região compreendida no estado brasileiro de São Paulo pelas cidades de Santo André (o "A"), São Bernardo do Campo (o "B") e São Caetano do Sul (o "C"), de grande industrialização e importância econômica, social e política no país
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ABC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
São Caetano, no ABC, já vacinou quase 10% de sua população.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- "ABC" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "As". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #5,156 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.