eat
/ˈiːt/
The verdict
“eat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,550) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,550
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comer
Corpus desk
Index PT-eat · eat · Portuguese
eat · rank #28,550 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,550
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH dissidência
Nearest frequency peer: dissidência (-3 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 “eat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- dezassete
dezassete
71,458 corpus weight
- dicotomia
dicotomia
71,457 corpus weight
- digerir
digerir
71,456 corpus weight
- dissidência
dissidência
71,454 corpus weight
- eat
eat
71,451 corpus weight
- encanador
encanador
71,442 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “eat” 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 | eat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈiːt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “eat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eat is neighbouring look-alikes ("em", "eu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈiːt/. Frequency #28,550 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Gloss: "comer".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for eat, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "em", "eu", "el", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is eat, spelled E-A-T.
Definition
- 1comer
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).