den
/deːn/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“den” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,112) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,112
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o, artigo definido masculino do caso acusativo singular:
Corpus desk
Index PT-den · den · Portuguese
den · rank #19,112 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,112
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH denso
Nearest frequency peer: denso (+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 “den”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- cursar
cursar
80,894 corpus weight
- den
den
80,889 corpus weight
- denso
denso
80,888 corpus weight
- department
department
80,887 corpus weight
- depilação
depilação
80,886 corpus weight
- desarmamento
desarmamento
80,885 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “den” 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 | den |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | /deːn/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “den”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for den is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "DJ", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced /deːn/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #19,112 among 1,193 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for den in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is den, spelled D-E-N.
Definition
- 1o, artigo definido masculino do caso acusativo singular:
- 2os, as, aos, às, dos, das, artigo definido neutro do caso dativo plural:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how den appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich sehe den Adler.
Der scharfe Wind macht den Adlern nichts aus.
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).