def
/dɛf/
The verdict
“def” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,132) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,132
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - algo muito bom
Corpus desk
Index PT-def · def · Portuguese
def · rank #32,132 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,132
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH defronte
Nearest frequency peer: defronte (+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 “def”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- coreto
coreto
67,874 corpus weight
- crucificação
crucificação
67,872 corpus weight
- córnea
córnea
67,871 corpus weight
- def
def
67,869 corpus weight
- defronte
defronte
67,868 corpus weight
- desconcerta…
desconcertante
67,860 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “def” 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 | def |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɛf/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “def”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for def is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "DJ", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /dɛf/. Frequency #32,132 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Gloss: "algo muito bom".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for def, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "do", "DJ", "du", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is def, spelled D-E-F.
Definition
- 1algo muito bom
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).