ado
The verdict
“ado” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,628) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,628
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a fazer
Corpus desk
Index PT-ado · ado · Portuguese
ado · rank #31,628 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,628
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH alfaiate
Nearest frequency peer: alfaiate (+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 “ado”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Ícaro
Ícaro
68,385 corpus weight
- acidez
acidez
68,379 corpus weight
- ado
ado
68,373 corpus weight
- alfaiate
alfaiate
68,371 corpus weight
- analfabeto
analfabeto
68,364 corpus weight
- aorta
aorta
68,362 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ado” 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 | ado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ado”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ado is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #31,628 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for ado 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is ado, spelled A-D-O.
Definition
- 1a fazer
- 2barulho, alvoroço, dificuldade
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
much ado about nothing
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).