Ass
/as/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“Ass” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,020) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,020
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ás
Corpus desk
Index PT-ass · Ass · Portuguese
Ass · rank #15,020 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,020
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH aroma
Nearest frequency peer: aroma (-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 “Ass”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Apollo
Apollo
84,987 corpus weight
- aquático
aquático
84,984 corpus weight
- aroma
aroma
84,983 corpus weight
- Ass
Ass
84,981 corpus weight
- aterro
aterro
84,979 corpus weight
- bacharel
bacharel
84,976 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Ass” 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 | Ass |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /as/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Ass”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ass is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "av", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /as/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #15,020 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Ass has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is Ass, spelled A-S-S.
Definition
- 1ás
- 2ás
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).