ah
The verdict
“ah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #640) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #640
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - exprime admiração
Corpus desk
Index PT-ah · ah · Portuguese
ah · rank #640 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #640
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH valor
Nearest frequency peer: valor (-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 “ah”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- seguinte
seguinte
99,364 corpus weight
- tradução
tradução
99,363 corpus weight
- valor
valor
99,362 corpus weight
- ah
ah
99,361 corpus weight
- comprar
comprar
99,359 corpus weight
- conselho
conselho
99,358 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ah” 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 | ah |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ah”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ah is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #640 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 11 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ah, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is ah, spelled A-H.
Definition
- 1exprime admiração
- 2exprime alegria
- 3exprime compaixão
- 4exprime desejo
- 5exprime dúvida
- 6exprime espanto
- 7exprime impaciência
- 8exprime ironia
- 9exprime dor
- 10exprime tristeza
- 11expressa um repentino, um súbito lembramento precedente a endereçamento de alguma mensagem ou algo ao interlocutor
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Em busca de Wondla
— Ah! Eu já ia me esquecendo! — disse Eva, engatinhando até onde estavam seus pertences, e puxou algo de lá. — Eu quero lhe dar isto.
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.