app
The verdict
“app” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,695) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,695
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aplicativo, aplicação
Corpus desk
Index PT-app · app · Portuguese
app · rank #4,695 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,695
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH age
Nearest frequency peer: age (-3 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 “app”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- vaca
vaca
95,314 corpus weight
- aborto
aborto
95,313 corpus weight
- admitir
admitir
95,311 corpus weight
- age
age
95,309 corpus weight
- app
app
95,306 corpus weight
- bad
bad
95,302 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “app” 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 | app |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “app”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for app is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ar", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #4,695 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "aplicativo, aplicação".
No generated misspelling entries exist for app in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ar", "at", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is app, spelled A-P-P.
Definition
- 1aplicativo, aplicação
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how app appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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