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The verdict

“che” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,600) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#11,600
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,140
“C” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - para expressar desprezo ou que se duvida da verdade do que se esta a ouvir

Corpus desk

Index PT-che · che · Portuguese

che · rank #11,600 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,600
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,140
  • PHOTO-FINISH casino

Nearest frequency peer: casino (-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 “che”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “che” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

che vs co
33% similar
che vs cu
33% similar
che vs ci
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for che
PropertyValue
Headwordche
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechInterjection
Letters3
Frequency rank#11,600
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “che”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).checai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “casino” (#11,598), “chupar” (#11,602), “captação” (#11,597). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “che” fica em #11,600. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for che is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "cu", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #11,600 among 2,140 “C” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for che, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "cu", "ci", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is che, spelled C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    para expressar desprezo ou que se duvida da verdade do que se esta a ouvir
  2. 2
    reforço de negação
  3. 3
    para enxotar animais
  4. 4
    forma reforçativa da oração, para chamar a atenção da pessoa com quem se está a falar, por vezes como um tu enfático.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how che appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "Ou che! Atende!"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "che"?
"che" is spelled C-H-E.
What does "che" mean?
As an interjection, "che" means: para expressar desprezo ou que se duvida da verdade do que se esta a ouvir
What words are commonly confused with "che"?
"che" is commonly confused with "co", "cu", "ci". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "che" come from?
"che" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "che", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

its#11,659opa#11,690uno#11,761véu#11,773

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list