am
The verdict
“am” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,705) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,705
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o / a usado com substantivos masculinos no caso nominativo singular quando a palavra começar com as letra b, f, m, p
Corpus desk
Index PT-am · am · Portuguese
am · rank #2,705 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,705
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH aplicação
Nearest frequency peer: aplicação (+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 “am”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- privado
privado
97,301 corpus weight
- am
am
97,296 corpus weight
- aplicação
aplicação
97,295 corpus weight
- beira
beira
97,293 corpus weight
- cansado
cansado
97,292 corpus weight
- chá
chá
97,290 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “am” 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 | am |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “am”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for am is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is anarticle. Frequency #2,705 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "o / a usado com substantivos masculinos no caso nominativo singular quando a palavra começar com as letra b, f, m, p".
Zero misspellings are on record for am in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is am, spelled A-M.
Definition
- 1o / a usado com substantivos masculinos no caso nominativo singular quando a palavra começar com as letra b, f, m, p
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.