act
The verdict
“act” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,948) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,948
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - agir
Corpus desk
Index PT-act · act · Portuguese
act · rank #9,948 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,948
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ache
Nearest frequency peer: ache (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “act”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Abel
Abel
90,055 corpus weight
- ache
ache
90,054 corpus weight
- act
act
90,053 corpus weight
- admissão
admissão
90,052 corpus weight
- alterado
alterado
90,051 corpus weight
- alugar
alugar
90,050 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “act” 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 | act |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “act”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for act is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #9,948 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
act doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is act, spelled A-C-T.
Definition
- 1agir
- 2representar, atuar, fazer um papel de ator ou atriz
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how act appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
to act like a fool.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).