cem
/ˈsɐ̃j̃/
The verdict
“cem” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,188) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,188
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - número equivalente a dez dezenas; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha uma centena de elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 100 (algarismos arábicos) ou C (algarismos romanos)
Corpus desk
Index PT-cem · cem · Portuguese
cem · rank #3,188 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,188
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH circulação
Nearest frequency peer: circulação (+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 “cem”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- amarelo
amarelo
96,821 corpus weight
- assinatura
assinatura
96,817 corpus weight
- cem
cem
96,813 corpus weight
- circulação
circulação
96,812 corpus weight
- condenado
condenado
96,811 corpus weight
- copo
copo
96,806 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cem” 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 | cem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /ˈsɐ̃j̃/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cem”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cem is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "cu", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced /ˈsɐ̃j̃/. Frequency #3,188 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Gloss: "número equivalente a dez dezenas; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha uma centena de elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 100 (algarismos arábicos) ou C (algarismos romanos)".
Zero misspellings are on record for cem 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, "co", "cu", "ci", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cem, spelled C-E-M.
Definition
- 1número equivalente a dez dezenas; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha uma centena de elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 100 (algarismos arábicos) ou C (algarismos romanos)
This word in other languages
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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