cum
/kʌm/
The verdict
“cum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,299) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,299
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - usado para indicar algo com duas funções, ou então que tenha se modificado de uma coisa para outra:
Corpus desk
Index PT-cum · cum · Portuguese
cum · rank #29,299 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,299
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH crista
Nearest frequency peer: crista (-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 “cum”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- crista
crista
70,703 corpus weight
- cum
cum
70,702 corpus weight
- cupcake
cupcake
70,701 corpus weight
- cúmulo
cúmulo
70,698 corpus weight
- democracy
democracy
70,695 corpus weight
- denegrir
denegrir
70,694 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cum” 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 | cum |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /kʌm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cum”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cum is neighbouring look-alikes ("cut", "cura", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced /kʌm/. Frequency #29,299 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Gloss: "usado para indicar algo com duas funções, ou então que tenha se modificado de uma coisa para outra:".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cum, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "cura", "cute", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is cum, spelled C-U-M.
Definition
- 1usado para indicar algo com duas funções, ou então que tenha se modificado de uma coisa para outra:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He built a bus-cum-greenhouse that made a bold statement, but the plants in it didn't live very long.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).