ego
/ˈe.ɡo/, /ˈe.ɡoː/
The verdict
“ego” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #6,872 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a pronoun.
- #6,872
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular, eu
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) |
Where “ego” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ego is 3 letters long, classified as a pronoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈe.ɡo/, /ˈe.ɡoː/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,872 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “ego”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-G-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈe.ɡo/, /ˈe.ɡoː/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “em” - see the side-by-side comparison. ego vs em
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.