eco
/ˈɛ.ku/
The verdict
“eco” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,146) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,146
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expressa nojo
Corpus desk
Index PT-eco · eco · Portuguese
eco · rank #7,146 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,146
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH duque
Nearest frequency peer: duque (-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 “eco”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- dificilmente
dificilmente
92,861 corpus weight
- doméstico
doméstico
92,857 corpus weight
- duque
duque
92,856 corpus weight
- eco
eco
92,855 corpus weight
- elegante
elegante
92,854 corpus weight
- elevador
elevador
92,853 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “eco” 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 | eco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈɛ.ku/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “eco”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eco is neighbouring look-alikes ("em", "eu", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ˈɛ.ku/. Frequency #7,146 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Gloss: "expressa nojo".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for eco, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "em", "eu", "el", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is eco, spelled E-C-O.
Definition
- 1expressa nojo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Retrato Mutante
Um toque original! Supresa! Inovador! Beleza pura! Meleca! Eco!
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "eco", not the corpus desk frequency band.