chu
/ʃy/, /ʃːy/
The verdict
“chu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,559) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,559
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - particípio passado do verbo choir
Corpus desk
Index PT-chu · chu · Portuguese
chu · rank #24,559 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,559
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH certeiro
Nearest frequency peer: certeiro (-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 “chu”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- calvário
calvário
75,451 corpus weight
- came
came
75,450 corpus weight
- certeiro
certeiro
75,443 corpus weight
- chu
chu
75,442 corpus weight
- coceira
coceira
75,436 corpus weight
- coincidir
coincidir
75,434 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “chu” 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 | chu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʃy/, /ʃːy/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “chu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for chu is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "cu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ʃy/, /ʃːy/. Frequency #24,559 among 2,140 “C” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chu 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is chu, spelled C-H-U.
Definition
- 1particípio passado do verbo choir
- 2particípio passado do verbo choir
- 3forma contractada de "je suis"
- 4forma contractada de "je suis"
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).