abo
/ˈæb.əʉ/
The verdict
“abo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,944) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,944
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aborígene, nativo australiano
Corpus desk
Index PT-abo · abo · Portuguese
abo · rank #39,944 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,944
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH abdómen
Nearest frequency peer: abdómen (-2 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “abo”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- égide
égide
60,065 corpus weight
- abad
abad
60,060 corpus weight
- abdómen
abdómen
60,059 corpus weight
- abo
abo
60,057 corpus weight
- absinto
absinto
60,053 corpus weight
- absolutista
absolutista
60,052 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “abo” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | abo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæb.əʉ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “abo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for abo is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈæb.əʉ/. Frequency #39,944 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "aborígene, nativo australiano".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is abo, spelled A-B-O.
Definition
- 1aborígene, nativo australiano
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).