arm
/aʁm/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“arm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,355) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,355
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pobre
Corpus desk
Index PT-arm · arm · Portuguese
arm · rank #27,355 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,355
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ani
Nearest frequency peer: ani (-6 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 “arm”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Ajax
Ajax
72,658 corpus weight
- amamentação
amamentação
72,654 corpus weight
- ani
ani
72,652 corpus weight
- arm
arm
72,646 corpus weight
- autodetermi…
autodeterminação
72,636 corpus weight
- autódromo
autódromo
72,635 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “arm” 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 | arm |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /aʁm/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “arm”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for arm is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "at", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /aʁm/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #27,355 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for arm in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "at", "av", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is arm, spelled A-R-M.
Definition
- 1pobre
- 2infeliz
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).