axe
The verdict
“axe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,285) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,285
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - machado, acha
Corpus desk
Index PT-axe · axe · Portuguese
axe · rank #33,285 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,285
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH azulejo
Nearest frequency peer: azulejo (+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 “axe”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- autoconfian…
autoconfiança
66,722 corpus weight
- autónomo
autónomo
66,719 corpus weight
- axe
axe
66,716 corpus weight
- azulejo
azulejo
66,714 corpus weight
- bells
bells
66,708 corpus weight
- Benin
Benin
66,707 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “axe” 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 | axe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “axe”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for axe is neighbouring look-alikes ("A", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #33,285 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "machado, acha".
Zero misspellings are on record for axe in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "A", "As", "ao", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is axe, spelled A-X-E.
Definition
- 1machado, acha
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how axe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh no! Carry an axe caused me an ache on my back.
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).