auf
/aʊ̯f/
The verdict
“auf” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,318) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,318
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aberto
Corpus desk
Index PT-auf · auf · Portuguese
auf · rank #42,318 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,318
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH bagre
Nearest frequency peer: bagre (+4 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 “auf”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- aromático
aromático
57,693 corpus weight
- auf
auf
57,683 corpus weight
- bagre
bagre
57,679 corpus weight
- beata
beata
57,673 corpus weight
- become
become
57,671 corpus weight
- bias
bias
57,664 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “auf” 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 | auf |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /aʊ̯f/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “auf”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for auf is neighbouring look-alikes ("av", "avô", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /aʊ̯f/. Frequency #42,318 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "aberto".
Zero misspellings are on record for auf in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "av", "avô", "ave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 auf, spelled A-U-F.
Definition
- 1aberto
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).