anão
The verdict
“anão” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,648) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,648
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4,352
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - indivíduo de estatura muito mais baixa que a normal
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 | anão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “anão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for anão is neighbouring look-alikes ("ao", "ano", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #10,648 among 4,352 “A” headwords. Gloss: "indivíduo de estatura muito mais baixa que a normal".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for anão, with forms such as "annão", "anoã", and "aãno". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ao", "ano", "and", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is anão, spelled A-N-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1indivíduo de estatura muito mais baixa que a normal
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- annão
- anoã
- aãno
- naão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anão - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “anão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ao” - see the side-by-side comparison. anão vs ao
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Words at a similar Portuguese frequency
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.