age

verb

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The verdict

“age” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,692) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#4,692
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,900
“A” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - envelhecer

Corpus desk

Index PT-age · age · Portuguese

age · rank #4,692 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,692
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,900
  • PHOTO-FINISH admitir

Nearest frequency peer: admitir (-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 “age”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “age” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

age vs As
0% similar
age vs ao
33% similar
age vs ar
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for age
PropertyValue
Headwordage
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters3
Frequency rank#4,692
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “age”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).agecai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “admitir” (#4,690), “app” (#4,695), “aborto” (#4,688). Entre 1,900 lemas com “A”, “age” fica em #4,692. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for age is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #4,692 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

No generated misspelling entries exist for age in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. 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.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is age, spelled A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    envelhecer
  2. 2
    amadurecer
  3. 3
    adiar
  4. 4
    classificar por ano

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how age appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
  2. O dinheiro está um pouco curto agora, vamos adiar nossas contas por uma semana mais ou menos.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "age"?
"age" is spelled A-G-E.
What does "age" mean?
As a verb, "age" means: envelhecer
What words are commonly confused with "age"?
"age" is commonly confused with "As", "ao", "ar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "age" come from?
"age" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "age", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

app#4,695bad#4,699mix#4,744pan#4,573

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list