ASC
The verdict
“ASC” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #49,305 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #49,305
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sigla de Agence Spatiale Canadienne, a Agência Espacial Canadiana
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) |
Where “ASC” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ASC is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation. Corpus data places it at rank #49,305 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “ASC”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-S-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “at” - see the side-by-side comparison. ASC vs at
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.