done
/dʌn/; /dɐn/; /dʊn/
The verdict
“done” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,299) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,299
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - particípio do verbo do
Corpus desk
Index PT-done · done · Portuguese
done · rank #23,299 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,299
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH disque
Nearest frequency peer: disque (-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 “done”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- deluxe
deluxe
76,713 corpus weight
- despejar
despejar
76,707 corpus weight
- disque
disque
76,703 corpus weight
- done
done
76,702 corpus weight
- duck
duck
76,699 corpus weight
- défice
défice
76,697 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “done” 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 | done |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dʌn/; /dɐn/; /dʊn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “done”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for done is neighbouring look-alikes ("dos", "dor", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /dʌn/; /dɐn/; /dʊn/. Frequency #23,299 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Gloss: "particípio do verbo do".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for done, with forms such as "ddone", "dnoe", and "doen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dos", "dor", "dot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 done, spelled D-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1particípio do verbo do
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddone
- dnoe
- doen
- donne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of done - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).