As
/as/
The verdict
“As” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forma obsoleta de Ass
Corpus desk
Index PT-as · As · Portuguese
As · rank #22 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #22
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH como
Nearest frequency peer: como (-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 “As”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- os
os
99,982 corpus weight
- eu
eu
99,981 corpus weight
- como
como
99,980 corpus weight
- As
As
99,979 corpus weight
- mais
mais
99,978 corpus weight
- dos
dos
99,977 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “As” 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 | As |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /as/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “As”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for As is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "av", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /as/. Frequency #22 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "forma obsoleta de Ass".
No misspelling variants are generated for As in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "av", "até", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is As, spelled A-S.
Definition
- 1forma obsoleta de Ass
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.