av
The verdict
“av” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,821) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,821
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - audiovisuel ("audiovisual"):
Corpus desk
Index PT-av · av · Portuguese
av · rank #5,821 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,821
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH atrasado
Nearest frequency peer: atrasado (-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 “av”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- apontar
apontar
94,185 corpus weight
- aposto
aposto
94,184 corpus weight
- atrasado
atrasado
94,181 corpus weight
- av
av
94,180 corpus weight
- bacia
bacia
94,177 corpus weight
- banana
banana
94,175 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “av” 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 | av |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “av”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for av is neighbouring look-alikes ("avô", "ave", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #5,821 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "audiovisuel ("audiovisual"):".
Zero misspellings are on record for av in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avô", "ave", "AVC", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is av, spelled A-V.
Definition
- 1audiovisuel ("audiovisual"):
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how av appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Forskellige former for av-udstyr er: projektor, tv og video.
Synonyms
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.