ann
The verdict
“ann” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,848) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,848
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aí
Corpus desk
Index PT-ann · ann · Portuguese
ann · rank #8,848 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,848
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH alumínio
Nearest frequency peer: alumínio (-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 “ann”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- águia
águia
91,158 corpus weight
- aceleração
aceleração
91,157 corpus weight
- alumínio
alumínio
91,154 corpus weight
- ann
ann
91,153 corpus weight
- aposentado
aposentado
91,152 corpus weight
- assessoria
assessoria
91,151 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ann” 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 | ann |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ann”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ann is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #8,848 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
ann has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is ann, spelled A-N-N.
Definition
- 1aí
- 2vivo, existente
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ann appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A bheil thu ann?
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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