ASC
The verdict
“ASC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,305) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,305
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sigla de Agence Spatiale Canadienne, a Agência Espacial Canadiana
Corpus desk
Index PT-asc · ASC · Portuguese
ASC · rank #49,305 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,305
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH arrotar
Nearest frequency peer: arrotar (-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 “ASC”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- apático
apático
50,704 corpus weight
- arrotar
arrotar
50,698 corpus weight
- ASC
ASC
50,696 corpus weight
- audaz
audaz
50,692 corpus weight
- bailar
bailar
50,687 corpus weight
- bananal
bananal
50,685 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ASC” 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 | ASC |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ASC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ASC is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "av", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #49,305 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "sigla de Agence Spatiale Canadienne, a Agência Espacial Canadiana".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ASC in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is ASC, spelled A-S-C.
Definition
- 1sigla de Agence Spatiale Canadienne, a Agência Espacial Canadiana
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ASC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nota: em inglês é conhecida como CSA (Canadian Space Agency).
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).