car
The verdict
“car” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,505) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,505
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - carro
Corpus desk
Index PT-car · car · Portuguese
car · rank #7,505 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,505
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH brigadeiro
Nearest frequency peer: brigadeiro (-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 “car”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- baía
baía
92,502 corpus weight
- bi
bi
92,500 corpus weight
- boneca
boneca
92,499 corpus weight
- brigadeiro
brigadeiro
92,498 corpus weight
- car
car
92,496 corpus weight
- consentimen…
consentimento
92,491 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “car” 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 | car |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “car”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for car is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "ce", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #7,505 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Gloss: "carro".
No generated misspelling entries exist for car in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "ce", "cu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is car, spelled C-A-R.
Definition
- 1carro
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how car appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He drives his wife's car.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "car", not the corpus desk frequency band.