ego
/ˈe.ɡo/, /ˈe.ɡoː/
The verdict
“ego” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,872) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,872
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular, eu
Corpus desk
Index PT-ego · ego · Portuguese
ego · rank #6,872 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,872
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH Elena
Nearest frequency peer: Elena (+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 “ego”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ego
ego
93,129 corpus weight
- Elena
Elena
93,128 corpus weight
- entusiasmo
entusiasmo
93,126 corpus weight
- est
est
93,125 corpus weight
- evangelho
evangelho
93,124 corpus weight
- fabricante
fabricante
93,122 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ego” 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 | ego |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈe.ɡo/, /ˈe.ɡoː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ego”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ego is neighbouring look-alikes ("em", "eu", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ˈe.ɡo/, /ˈe.ɡoː/. Frequency #6,872 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Gloss: "primeira pessoa do singular, eu".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ego in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is ego, spelled E-G-O.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular, eu
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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