apo
/ˈa.poː/.
The verdict
“apo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,685) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,685
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - atar, juntar, ligar.
Corpus desk
Index PT-apo · apo · Portuguese
apo · rank #45,685 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,685
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH aqueduto
Nearest frequency peer: aqueduto (+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 “apo”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- anfíbio
anfíbio
54,325 corpus weight
- antever
antever
54,321 corpus weight
- antevisão
antevisão
54,320 corpus weight
- apo
apo
54,316 corpus weight
- aqueduto
aqueduto
54,314 corpus weight
- arborização
arborização
54,313 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “apo” 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 | apo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈa.poː/. |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “apo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for apo is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ar", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈa.poː/.. Frequency #45,685 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "atar, juntar, ligar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for apo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ar", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 apo, spelled A-P-O.
Definition
- 1atar, juntar, ligar.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).