don
/dɒn/ ouvir ^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“don” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,306) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,306
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - professor universitário (especialmente da Universidade de Oxford ou de Cambridge)
Corpus desk
Index PT-don · don · Portuguese
don · rank #4,306 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,306
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH derrubar
Nearest frequency peer: derrubar (-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 “don”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- confortável
confortável
95,702 corpus weight
- curiosidade
curiosidade
95,699 corpus weight
- daquilo
daquilo
95,697 corpus weight
- derrubar
derrubar
95,696 corpus weight
- don
don
95,695 corpus weight
- Garcia
Garcia
95,689 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “don” 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 | don |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɒn/ ouvir ^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “don”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for don is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dos", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /dɒn/ ouvir ^(fonte ?). Frequency #4,306 among 1,193 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for don 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, "du", "dos", "dor", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is don, spelled D-O-N.
Definition
- 1professor universitário (especialmente da Universidade de Oxford ou de Cambridge)
- 2chefe da máfia italiana
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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